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ENEMY AT CHANGSHA
TACTICS OP CHINESE
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Jan. 8. General Hsueh-yueh, at the victory celebration, said that 30,000 Japanese were still encircled 30 miles north-east of Changsha and were facing certain annihilation. He said that the Japanese originally numbered 120,000, against 80,000 Chinese. "The victory was merely one of our manoeuvres carried but In complete accordance with a premeditated plan," he declared. "The Japanese were defeated because they were completely outwitted," General Hsueh also declared that, the Japanese used gas bombs. The Chungking newspaper, "Takung Pao," commenting on the Japanese declaration that they were withdrawing from Changsha after accomplishing their objectives, said that this was familiar terminology. "The- Japanese are retiring to their bases in much-thinned columns, as the corpses literally littering the plains between the Liuyang and Laotap Rivers grimly testify1," the newspaper said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1942, Page 5
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