FURTHER DEFEATS
JAPANESE INVADERS
(Rec. 2 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Sept. 25. The Chinese forces attacking on the outskirts of Tung-yang, 40 miles north-east of Kinwha, captured several Japanese positions. In a two-day battle at Chekao, in central Anhwei Province, 1000 Japanese, strongly supported by tanks, ■suffered 300 casualties. The Japanese were forced back to Chao-shien after bitter fighting. One of the bloodiest chapters in the China war is being written by guerrillas in North China. The Chinese military spokesman said that in the northern provinces the Japanese had lost thousands of killed and at least 85.000 captured during the last year. The1 local populations aided the guerrillas, joining in many lightning attacks on Japanese communications and garrisons.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 8
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