FIERCE RESISTANCE
JAPANESE OFFENSIVE IN CHINA BATTLE IN SHANTUNG Chungking, Feb. 15. Ten thousand Japanese troops, in a three-day offensive in the effort to dislodge the Chinese from southern Shuntung, have encountered fierce Chinese resistance. Both sides have suffered heavy casualties in this battle, which is the biggest in r iiina. The Japanese are attacking the Chinese base in the Tayi mountains. The Japanese desire to remove the which the Chinese have repeatedly threat to the Tsinan-Tsingtao railway, dynamited.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 February 1942, Page 5
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79FIERCE RESISTANCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 February 1942, Page 5
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