REPORT OF JAPANESE DEBACLE
CHINESE CLAIM DEFEAT OF ENCIRCLING MOVE CHUNGKING, May 19. The Chinese, counter-attacking in northern Hupeh, slaughtered 18,000 Japanese and defeated the encircling movement at Tangho, where two Japanese columns had made a junction earlier and became isolated from the main body. The Japanese are retreating southwards through the Tahung mountains towards Tsayang and are conducting a running fight with their pursuers. The Japanese claim that they have cleared northern Hupeh and southern Honan of Chinese troops, says a report from Tokyo.
BRITAIN AND AMERICA IN COMPLETE ACCORD
TOKYO, May 19.
The British Ambassador to Tokyo (Sir Robert Craigie) has informed Japan that Britain is completely in accord with the United States memorandum on the International Settlement at Shanghai. The Japanese say that the British and American naval commanders at Kulangsu, the international settlement near Amoy, proposed to Japan the simultaneous withdrawal of the armed forces.
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Southland Times, Issue 23823, 22 May 1939, Page 8
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