Towns: Severe Fighting on Yellow River HE Chinese may claim vic tories in their widely-heralded counter-offensive on the Tsinpu front, but the Japanese Army spokesman here summarized the Japanese attitude to the reports in three words: "We say—No!"
Later, pressed for an amplified statement, the office! emphatically denied Chinese claims of startling successes. Japanese troops, he added. had not evacuated any important towns in Shansi or Honan. The Chinese, *however, he admitted, may have entered villages evacuated by the Japanese for strategical or other reasons.
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