CHINESE LOSE TOWNS
JAPS.’ COSTLY ADVANCE
CHUNGKING, May 17
A Chinese communique admits the loss of Chiangkou and Kungang north-west of the Tungting Lake, in Hunan Province. It adds that more than 1000 Japanese were killed in fierce fighting on the outskirts of Tsingshih. an important highway centre north-west of Tungting Lake, but that the enemy was reinforced and continued to attack.
Several hundred Japanese were killed in the Kingmen sector, north of the Yangtse, in Hupeh Province, where the Chinese are making a diversionary attack in an effort to re-
lieve the pressure against their Tungting Lake forces. The Chungking correspondent of the United Press of America says that their recent advance has given the Japanese control of most of the triangular area between the Tungting Lake and the Yangtse. The Japanese are now trying to clear the entire west shore of the Tungting Lake.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 May 1943, Page 5
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