JAP RETREAT A ROUT
MORE CHINESE SUCCESSES Chungking, March 18. The Japanese retreat in central China assumed the proportions of a rout as the Chinese, pushing swiftly northward toward the Yangtse River recaptured five more towns and launched a climatic assault on Hwajung. The Chinese are also attacking enemy positions on the Canton-Han-kow railway. Yesterday's communique said that enemy forces have been surrounded by the Chinese in the area north-east of Nangsien. They have lost a great proportion of their number and face imminent, annihilation. The Chinese are maintaining their gains in the Hupeh area against the thwarted eight column drive. The Japanese have retired from the four key towns they had reached 60 miles southward of the Yangtse. The Chinese drove them back 30 miles. A Chinese Army spokesman said that 2000 Japanese troops attacked the Chinese forces near the Lungling in lhe Yunan province, apparently testing the Chinese strength on the west bank of the Salween in expectation that the Chinese attack along the Burma Road will begin from there.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 66, 20 March 1943, Page 5
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