CHINESE AT KINWHA
JAP COLUMNS DECIMATED (Recd. 11 p.m.) Chungking, Sept. 28. Chinese forces inflicted considerable casualties on Japanese columns strik-1 ing west and south-west, of Kinwha. One enemy column lost 300 in a fourhour battle and the remainder fled. Subsequently the Chinese engaged a second column near Wuyi, south-east of Kinwha, where fighting is progressing. THREE THOUSAND DEAD IN FLOOD (Recd. 9 p.m.) New York, Sept. 28. The Associated Press of America’s Chungking correspondent says that belated despatches report that a mighty wave six to twenty feet deep from the Yellow River flooded Eastern Shansi province late in August, leaving 3000 dead and 40,000 homeless. The subsiding waters deposited layers of mud two to three feeTdeep. Loss of crops threatens a famine.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 230, 30 September 1942, Page 5
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