JAP WARSHIP SUNK
1000 TROOPS REPORTED DROWNED MINE IN YANGTSE RIVER (Rec. 12,20 p.m.) Chungking, June 24. According to the Central News Agency 1000 Japanese troops were drowned when a large Japanese warship was sunk by a Chinese mine in the Yangtse river. The Chinese continue mopping-up operations along the Hutu river with considerable success, says the Associated Press of Great Britain. Fighting continues near Swatow with no strategical change. A Japanese garrison at Owchihkow was encircled. The Central News Agency states that because of the heavy drain of manpower resulting from recent reverses in China and other war areas the Japanest are stepping up the forced recruiting of Chinese civilians for labour gangs in the Hupeh and Fukien provinces. They drafted all students for military service in Central China and conscripted all school boys of military age in Northern China. The Japanese also intensified their efforts to force peasants to grow more cotton, of which Japan is suffering an acute shortage.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 June 1943, Page 5
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