CASUALTIES TO END OF LAST YEAR
HUGE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES (Rec. noon) London, June 11. George Yeh, London Director of the Chinese Ministry of Information, stated that over 300 Chinese divisions, total, ling 5,000,000 soldiers, were in the field and over 800.000 guerrillas were harassing Japanese garrisons and lines of communication. Over 600.000 Chinese regulars were operating behind Japanese lines. China had not suffered smaller losses than the Japanese to the end of 1941. Japanese losses were conservatively estimated to exceed 2,000,000 killed and wounded. Lack of air support and heavy armaments often obliged the Chinese to fall back from areas undefendable with small arms. China in the past two years had relied completely on her own output of small arms. She was able to .produce 100,000 rifles a year, and was also making trench mortars, light machine-guns and grenades. Mr Yeh said it was wrong to imagine that the Japanese were using inferior troops in China. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 12 June 1942, Page 2
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