Shanghai, June 20.
Chinese claims of the recapture of Ichang. important stronghold on the north bank of the Yangtze River in western Hupeh, Kingmen, near Ichang, and other positions which were taken by the Japanese in their recent offend sive to the west of the Han River, fre categorically denied and branded as "wholly groundless propaganda" by fa spokesman for the Japanese military authorities yesterday afternoon, The spokesman declared that the fact that, Chungking is carrying on. propaganda of this kind was evidence that the losses suffered in the Sth War Zone atler an unbroken series. of disastrous defeats had been a serious blow to Chungking.
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