JAPAN’S LOSSES
CHINESE COMPUTATION. WAR EFFECT ON PRODUCTION. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) CHUNGKING. January 2. According to a Chinese Army spokesman. Japan's losses in thirty months have been 1.‘164.400 men. including 585.760 killed or wounded. Disease had killed or incapacitated the remainder. He added that Japan was maintaining an army of 1,680.000. Conscription had resulted in a drop of one-third in the 1939 agricultural output. Japan’s rice shortage alone was 857,000 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 5
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