Heavy Fighting- In China
(8.0. W.)
RUGBY, Feb. 20,
A Chungking communique says that Chinese troops are holding up the Japanese drive to the west on the Burma Road in Yunnan. Bloody fighting is also taking place in Kaingsu and the Chinese have been driven back in the South Hupeh area. The Chinese for the second time have recaptured Shapingwu in North China, and routed a three-pronged column north and west .of Canton. The Japanese resumed the drive southward from Kineli, and a Japanese unit was encircled and annihilated.
A land mine blew up a troop train at Krom in Soochow. killing more than 100 Japanese.
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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1943, Page 3
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