GAINING GROUND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 7

GAINING GROUND

CHINESE OFFENSIVE HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED BY JAPANESE RUSSIAN AIRMEN BUSY <By Tckg'-aph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, Aug. 10. The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post Hongkong correspondent says that it is officially claimed in Canton that the Chinese offensive on the north bank of the Yangtse is gaining ground. The Japanese suffered heavy I losses in Hwangmei, where they are facing extermination because of the Chinese intercepting reinforcements. Moreover, floods are preventing the Japanese from bringing up transport and heavy equipment, resulting in the Chinese being equal therein but numerically superior. It is confirmed that the Japanese are withdrawing northwards from basis in Shansi and Honan, presumably because of the Russian-Japa-nese situation. Mr. Peter Roberts, an English flier, says that 1000 Russian pilots and aircraftmen in Hankow equipped with 50 bombers and 100 pursuit planes are , raiding Japanese vessels on the Yangtse and sinking rivercraft and motorboats and an occasional destroyer.