COUNTER ATTACK
CHINESE FORCES DIVERTING THE PRESSURE PROGRESS OF JAPANESE HANKOW OFFENSIVE By Telegraph—Fress Association —Copyright SHANGHAI, July 28 "While the Japanese are steadily advancing along the Yangtze River to Hankow, the Chinese have launched a counter offensive on the Lunghai railway, with the ol>ject of diverting Japanese pressure. They claim to have crossed the flood waters of the Yellow River and to have reached Kaifeng, the capital of Honan. Other Chinese troops, driven from Kiukiung, have taken up nr-n- positions, strongly reinforced from the roar. Terrorist activity is spreading to Nanking. Bombs worn thrown into the offices of the Japanese-sponsored Nanking Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23103, 30 July 1938, Page 13
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103COUNTER ATTACK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23103, 30 July 1938, Page 13
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