A CHINESE VICTORY

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15237, 30 December 1942, Page 3

A CHINESE VICTORY

JAP FORCE ROUTED. United Pi ess Assu.—By Electric Telegraph!—CopyrightCHUNGKING, Dec. 28. Chinese routed the Japanese force occupying Hysiliui, 80 miles east of Hankow, while successful operations against the Japanese are continuing in the Yangtze valley, reports the United Press correspondent. The Japanese were forced out of Hysiliui after occupying it for three days. The Japanese garrison at Tsefushu, 150 miles southwest of Hankow, suffered heavy casualties when the Chinese carried out a night attack. Brief Japanese sorties iti western, Hupeh were repulsed and a Japanese depot at Hinge cheng was destroyed. Repeated attacks by Chinese guerrillas have obstructed Japanese efforts to build new roads and airfields in Hainan.. Chinese guerrillas report that a large number of Chines© puppet troops have been executed in North China for “dangerous thoughts” or communications with bandits. The Japanese called the latest pnrgie a purification. Famine conditions are .growing worse in Honan province. Families aXe exchanging girls for millet # >r wheat and some people ar© eating grass, tea leaves and tree bark.