FIGHTING IN CHINA
JAPANESE RUTHLESSNESS LONDON, Sept. 6. A Chungking communique states: Severe fighting continues on the outskirts of Kinhwa and near Lanchi, with the Chinese steadily gaining the upper hand. Enemy troops in both cities have been reinforced repeatedly, but have failed to break the Chinese cordon, and have suffered heavy casualties. The Chinese captured a point south of the railway town of Tungyang, 70 miles south of Hangchow. The enemy troops fled, leaving many killed and wounded.
The Central News Agency reports that 21,000 young Chinese men and women were massacred by,the retreating Japanese in Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces. Cities in the two provinces are heaped with corpses. The Japanese also burned cities and villages, leaving hundreds of thousands of homeless along' the Hangchow-Nan-chang railway. The Government is hastening relief to the area.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25015, 8 September 1942, Page 3
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