TRAP AT CHANGSHA
GREAT JAPANESE LOSSES
(Rec 11.30 a.m.) CHUNGKING, January 6. A military spokesman announced that 40,000 Japanese troops had been caught in the Chinese trap on the' plains between the Laotao and Luinyang Rivers, north-west of Changsha.
It is estimated that the Japanese suffered 30,000 casualties in the battle before Changsha. The spokesman asserted that only 30,000 of 100,000 Japanese escaped. ' "
The Domei news agency claims that the Japanese have completely occupied Changsha.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1942, Page 5
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75TRAP AT CHANGSHA Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1942, Page 5
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