WAR IN CHINA
FIGHTING ON APPROACHES TO CHANGSHA
THE JAPANESE PLANS.
PREPARATIONS FOR BIG DRIVE:
By Telegraph—P—”S Association —Copyright SHANGHAI, September 25.
The Japanese pushing toward Changsha have occupied strategic positions east and south of Lake Tungting. Gunboats cleared away Chinese barricades. Planes raided positions near Yingtien and attacked the Chinese six miles north of the Canton-Hangkow railway.
A Chungking message says it is officially stated that the new Japanese operations toward Changsha are experimental preparations for a big drive. The Chinese are reported to be holding most of the east shore of Lake Tungting. The Japanese are moving three columns on Changsha, the centre one of which, astride the railway, has been stopped on the north bank of the Hsiu River. The second is moving south on the east shore of Lake Tungting and occupied Yuantien, but the Chinese expelled the third column from the west shore of the lake and •are moving south on the WuchangChangsha highway.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1939, Page 5
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