Chungking, Feb. 12.
'HE Chinese counter-offensive in South Kwangsi, which started on February 9, is progressing smoothly, according to Chinese military dispatches reaching here from Kweilin, provincial capital. In three days of fighting, the Chinese claim to have inflicted 16,000 casualties on the Japanese and to have halted their columns at Pingyang aid Wuming.
Japanese forces at Shanling, northwest of Pingyang, are said now to be forced to withdraw to the south from the town towards Pingyang. At the same time, a Japanese column, pushing northward from Nanning along the highway toward Wuming, is reported to have met with a strong Chinese counter-attack south of Wuthing, and is said to have been driven to a point south of Shuanchiao.
A Chinese colümn east of Pingyang, in a counter-attack on Litang and Tachiao, it is stated, has reached the outskirts of Pingyang.
Bad weather conditions, particularly rain, are at present bringing to standstill Japánése aerial activities ili South Kwangsi.
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