CHINESE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
canton railway cut United Press Assn - -By Electric Telegraph Copyright. CHUNGKING, June 21. Chinese supported by superior artillery, launched a strong counter offensive at Kwantur.g, crossed tin Pa River aid drove into the outskirts of Yunstan, 3l miles north of Canton on the Canton-Hankov' railway and succeeded in cutting the railway south of Yungtan. Chinese intercepted a stronglyarmed Japanese column composed of 170 trucks, seven tanks, and over 10 field pieces near Hsiavi east- of Honan. and killed 500 Japanese.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15075, 22 June 1942, Page 3
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