HEAVY CASUALTIES
REC. A . JAPANESE REVERSES (Rec. 1.5 p.m.) Chungking, June 28. Japanese killed and wounded in their recent upper Yangtse push totalled 30.000, says the correspondent of the Associated Press of America. The official announcement giving these figures adds that only 20 Japanese were captured. Chinese casualties are not disclosed, but General Chencheng said they were far less than the enemy’s. The small number of prisoners was due to the Japanese practice of committing suicide in preference to capture. General Wu-Chinwei, Chinese commander of the upper Yangtse defences, told the correspondent of the Associat-. ed Press of America that the Japanese retreat after recent battle for the, gateway to Chungking was so disorderly that the enemy buried some of their wounded alive. He added that the Japanese usually removed their dead to a crematory, but on this occasion seriously wounded officers and men were given injections rendering* them unconscious and then buried onj the battlefield with the bodies of those; killed in action.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 29 June 1943, Page 2
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