WAR IN CHINA.
CONFUSED BATTLES RAGING. (Times Cables.) Received April 19, 1.10 p.m. LONDON, April 18. The Tokio correspondent of the Times says that the Japanese have occupied Putsinlnva, south-east of Nanchang. from where they are pushing on after crushing the Chinese under General Lochoying. The Japanese claim that they killed 3500 Chinese during the offensive south of the Yangtsekiang. Confused battles are raging elsewhere. The Japanese assert that the Russian Artillery Corps are helping the Chinese offensive in south Shansi. A message from Chungking says that the Chinese officially claim administrative control of 6H P er cent, of the nine provinces which the Japanese have invaded, compared with 7\ per cent, under Japanese control, leaving 31 per cent, under joint control. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek scouts the possibilities of peace bftween China and Japan, and declares that Japan will be reduced to a second-class Power unable to withstand the strain of warfare.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 118, 19 April 1939, Page 10
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