NORTHERN CHINA
HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED JAPANESE OFFENSIVE (Rec. 11 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 11. The Associated Press reports that heavy fighting has broken out in northern China. Ten thousand Japanese troops have begun an offensive on the Honan-Hupeh border, west of the Pekin-Hankow railway. Brisk battles are progressing along an irregular 90mile line. The Chinese retook one town after street fighting in which half the Japanese garrison was wiped out. The Chinese admitted that the Japanese captured several towns on the ShansiHonan border. According to a message from Tokio, the Foreign Office organ, the Japan Times, declares that peace with China is impossible until the United States so wills. The newspaper adds that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek redoubled his resistance against Japan from the moment the United States indicated that it wanted China to resist. Thus Japan’s only possible policy i§ continued support, for the Nanking Government.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24605, 13 May 1941, Page 7
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