Heavy Fighting in China
JAPANESE CLAIM BIG SUCCESSES Received Friday, 1 a.m. SHANGHAI, May 15. Fierce fighting is reported to be in progress in several parts of China. According to the Domei Nows Agency the Japanese forces in Shansi annihilated the Chinese seventh, twelfth and 34th divisions in tho course of an encircling movement which trapped 100,000 Chinese. A Chungking communique admits that the Japanese in the Kwangtung province recaptured Tungkiang, a river town near Waichow. Other Japanese are reported to have entered Fasyuen, the first major town north of Canton, I but were driven out quickly. There has been severe fighting in the past three days in the vicinity of Chukien, Chekiang, Central Hupeh and Southern Shansi.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 115, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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