FAR EAST CONFLICT
f LOSSES OF JAPANESE CHINESE COMPUTATION (Received January 3, 5.5 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Jan. 2 According to the spokesman for the .Chinese Army Japan's losses in 30 months of the war total 1,464,400 men. Of these 585,760 were killed or wounded. Disease killed or incapacitated the; remainder. japan, was maintaining an army of 1,680,000 men. Conscription lid resulted in a drop of one-third in the " agricultural output in 1939. Japan's rice shortage alone was 857,000 tons.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23545, 4 January 1940, Page 8
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