Chungking, Dec. 11.
HE Chinese forces in northern Hunan, on the night of December 9, launched a counter~ offensive, according to Chinese military dispatches received here, and captured Lungwanchiao and [Sinkaitang, two strategic points five miles south-east of Yochow. Another Chinese dispatch claimed that, on December 3, 160 Japanese trucks, six tanks and one motor car, loaded with Japanese officers and troops, were proceed ing from Wuchang to Tsungyang, near. the Hupeh-Hunan border, on the Hankow-Changsha highway, when they were ambushed by a Chinese mobile column in the vicinity of Hsienning.
"After three hours of severe fighting," the dispatch stated, "600 'Japar.ese were killed, including the oticers in the motor car. Thirty trucks were also destroyed. The Chinese finally withdrew in the face of an attack by the Japanese tanks,' ithe dispatch concluded—Reuter.
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