FIERCE FIGHTING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 24 October 1940, Page 6

FIERCE FIGHTING

CHINESE CLAIM VICTORIES STORMING OF LANGSI 2000 JAPANESE KILLED [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] (Received 24th October, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd October. A message from Chungking says that despite Japanese bombings traffic on the Burma road remains unaffected. Only minor damage has been suffered. A Shanghai despatch says Chinese regulars and guerrillas are engaged in a battle with the Japanese on a 1500 miles front from the north. In Southern China they report many victories. Large numbers of Japanese have withdrawn from the north recently for concentration on Hainan Island, where it is reported several 100,000 are awaiting the “golden opportunity.” Japanese are heavily reinforcing the Licheng district, in south-eastern Shansi, where the Chinese claim to have stormed Langsi, 75 miles northward of Wuhu, killing 2.000 Japanese troops. The Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says Japanese reports indicate that the Chinese are continuing effective military operations on various fronts, fighting 2889 engagements in September. A British subject, Mr Arthur Lewis Pollard Urquhart, died at Kunming as a result of a Japanese air raid on the Burma Road.