BATTLE FOR HENGYANG
CHUNGKING, July 25. The battle for Hengyang is near a climax as the Japanese have compressed their ring about the besieged city and repelled Chinese relief columns. The fall of Hengyang Avill probably presage a full-scale offensive southivards to close the 170-mile gap in the Canton-Hankow railway, permitting an unbroken Japanese span of 1000 miles from north to south. A Chinese communique said that the Chinese developed a successful attack against the Japanese east of Liling, 75 i miles north-east of Hengyang, and occupied several
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 5
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88BATTLE FOR HENGYANG Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 5
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