The Archive · 1939

Joseph Beck

Foreign Minister for Poland, the

"Sunday Times" declares that the conversations which will take place next week will probably result in the signing of a mutual defence pact between Great Britain and Poland the Wuning sector was defended by at least 15 divisions attached to the Chinese Launch Offensive and the granting to Warsaw of a 20,000,008 loan for the reorganiza-

First Army Corps under Gen. Lo Chao-ying, a commander in the ninth war district. The number of dead abandoned in the Chinese retreat from Wuning indicated that the total Chinese casualties must have reached a huge figure, Japanese Army officers, stated. They estimated that the remaining strength of Gen. Lo's forces was about one half or one third of the original.

The Japanese success in crushing the forces far outnumbering them was an outstanding achievement of the hostilities worthy to be included in Japan's war annals, Japanese officers stated.

Japanese Army air units were making daily raids on Chinese troops retreating from the Nanchang area on highways toward Changsha and Yifeng, Japanese Army authorities in Hankow stated. Favoured by clear weather on Friday afternoon, a large squadron of Army planes continued attacks along the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway. One unit bombed five military trains of 40 cars each mov. ing westward in the vicinities of Hsinyu, Hsiapu and Yuanchow. Fifty coaches and wagons in station compounds also were bombed—Domei.

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