JAPANESE CHECKED
bid Td take Railway i 5 MILE SECTION HELD (2,40 p.m.) CHUNGkiNG; Jilly 2. The Chinese High GbrifmSrid declalfed that japahesb colufiths, Who wefe brideaYbuhirig tb clbs’e the gap iri the Ghekiarig-Kiangsi railwUY, Wbfb successfully bhecked. The Japahesb had asseft'ed thrit th'e gap was closed, but the 25-mile section front Tyring td.Shringjrib Was not t'akfeh, although the Japanese rittricked vigbrously from both towns., The Chinese admit tne I'd‘s‘s bf the Kiangsi towns of Pqyang in the north and Tsuhgjeri in thb sbrith. Thb Chinese forces recaptured two towns near the Honan-Shapsi border, where the battlb has raged for the prist nightThe Chinese spokesman said that the Japanese are no'W bdricerift-riling ptfeSSurb on Kiangsi in a semi-circular moVement south of the railway, centring, on., Lichvvan _in an effort to trap large Chiriese forebs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 4
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