Desperate Fighting
LONDON, August 26. Desperate fighting is proceeding in sweltering heat in the vicinity of Juichang, says a message from Shanghai. The Chinese deny the loss of the town. They say they are entrenched 300,000 strong along the Nanchang railway. General Chu-Teh, commander of the Chinese Communist eighth Route Army, says his men in a year have fought in 600 engagements, inflicted 34,000 casualties and taken 2000 prisoners. He is quite confident the Chinese will push back the Japanese to the sea. Dr. Hoo Chi-Tsai, in a communication to the League of Nations at Geneva, alleged that the Japanese used poison gas and annihilated two Chinese battalions in the Juichang sector on August 22. The first major successes in the Japanese drive to Hankow and the capture of Juichang are now admitted by the Chinese, also at Yuchingshan Hill, the guardian of Poyan Lake, 1700 being killed. The Japanese are advancing slowly in the face of the fiercest resistance. A message from Tokio states that a nation-wide drive for scrap iron from households for munitions has begun.
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Northern Advocate, 29 August 1938, Page 7
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