CHINESE TRAPPED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 April 1938, Page 5

CHINESE TRAPPED.

CLAIMS BY JAPS. SEVEN DIVISIONS IN PERIL (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Monday, 11.35 p.m. LONDON, April 4. The Peking correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that a Japanese staff officer declares that despite the sweeping claims by the Chinese of victory along the Tient-sin-Pukow railway the Japanese at present had seven Chinese divisions trapped between two columns while the Japanese mobile detachments had cut ofl Hie Chinese retreat. The following cablegram was received by the Chinese Con 3ttl from Hankow: — The enemy toico which we surrounded at Taicr-chwiing was completely annihilated. \ Yesterday our troops recaptured for the second time ivaeiho and i-iangshia-tien, two railway stations north of Tengshicu. We spilt the > urny forces into several sections at Tsaochwang and Yihsien, and are now surrounding and attacking each section separately. During March we destroyed 35 enemy ’planes and picked up the dead bodies of 37 Japanese airmen within our lines, and captured two airmen. Our mechanised units have joined in the fighting in the front line in the south of Shantung, and have proved very effective. We still maintain the upper hand in fighting in the northern sector of the Tsinpu railway. JAPS. ENTER KIANGSU PROVINCE. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, April 4. The Japanese forces have entered Kiaiigsu Province.