The Archive · 1939

New Chinese Troops Praised

Big Victory Said Won Against Japanese Chungking, May 30.

General Feng Vu-hsiang, Deputy Chairman of the National Military Council, speaking at the press conference this afternoon, attributed the recent alleged Chinese successes on ious war fronts to the "fine fighting quality of the new troops and the spiritual training which is at present being intensively pursued in the Chinese Army.

Chinese soldiers fighting in North Hupeh, he claimed, inflicted 25,000 casualties on the Japanese, "who retreated nearly 200 miles, the worst defeat suffered by the Japanese Feng Vu-hsiang said that he was "highly pleased with the morale of the new troops, who were daily being taught to hate the determination of the Japanese militarists and to avenge the wrongs done to China by the Japanese."—Reuter.

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