FIERCE FIGHTING IN CHINA

Southland Times, Issue 24764, 8 June 1942, Page 5

FIERCE FIGHTING IN CHINA

JAPANESE SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES (Rec. 11 p.m.) CHUNGKING, June 6. The Japanese hurled 100,000 troops in fierce new onslaughts against Chuhsian, which cost them 10,000 casualties in two days. Official Chinese reports described this as one of the bloodiest battles of the past two years in China. The Chinese have recaptured Ling-

shanchan north-east of Chuhsien. The Japanese are also meeting stiff resistance in their thrust northward from Canton. New Japanese attempts to cross the Upper Salween in Yunnan were repulsed. JAPANESE PLANS High Chinese quarters declared that they had received information that high Japanese diplomats, after a tour of South China recently, submitted the following recommendations to Tokyo. (1) Dispose of the China incident at any cost. (2) Shelve the Russian problem until the China affair is settled, or is well on the way towards settlement. (3) Minimize the effect of future Allied warfare against Japanese shipping by insuring overland rail communications with French IndoChina. It is believed, says an Associated Press correspondent, that Japan will first seek to obtain full control of the Peiping-Hankow and Canton-Hankow railways, thus bisecting China.