JAPAN’S WAR LOSSES
TOTAL NEARLY 1,500,000 CLAIM BY CHINESE (Reed. Jan. 3, 2.50 p.m.) CHUNKING, Jan. 2. According to the Chinese Army spokesman, Japan’s losses in 30 months’ war total 1,464,400 men including 585.760 killed and wounded. Disease killed and incapacitated the remainer. He added that Japan was maintaining an army of 1,680,000. Conscription had resulted in a drop of one third in the 1939 agricultural output. Japan’s rice shortage alone totalled 857,000 tons.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 11
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