STRATEGIC HILL
RETAKEN BY CHINESE Recd. 6 p.m. Chungking, April 9 In a furious engagement raginp over ten days in south-west Shansi Province, crack Chinese troops recaptured a strategically-imnortant hill which had heen lost in hand-to-hand fighting with several thousand Japanese supported by planes and tanks. Another height which the Japanese endeavoured to capture with over 100? troops changed hands seven times ir one day. Finally, the Chinese '’ n 2 ’•raved over the summit. From 300 tc 400 Japanese were killed or wounded in this battip
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 85, 12 April 1943, Page 5
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86STRATEGIC HILL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 85, 12 April 1943, Page 5
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