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LONDON, October 3. Chungking gives additional details of the great Japanese rout in the battle at Changsha in the province of Hunan. Among the Japanese dead are two commanders of divisions, one of whom committed hara-kiri. Changsha is a city of importance, on the Canton-Peking railway. Just before the Chinese counterattacked, a small unit of Japanese tn plain clothes filtered into one, part of the city but was quickly dealt with. AH day on Tuesday the Japanese planes kept up a terrific bombardment, but Changsha was never occupied. On the same day the Chinese completed the encirclement of • five Japanese divisions, totalling about 100,000 men, and the process of annihilation began. ""**" Yesterday the Japanese were in full retreat northwards with the Chinese in hot pursuit.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 9
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