Why the Japanese Were Defeated in Drive on Changsha Explaine by Chinese Army Advisers FAPAN'S military policy of "se Hongkong, Nov. 19. nding a boy to do a man's job" has cost the Island Empire two almost certain victories this year, when major dr Jes were instituted, and will cost them even mote heavily in the future, a Chinese central. armies told thi foreign military adviser to the is correspondent at Chungking Ju their drive on Changsha, the adviser explained, five Japanese divisions, unsupported by artillery reg' ents and tanks, were used. 'They had to protect 250-mile front extending from Tungting Lake to Nanchang, whi lo at the same time sending four' columns of troops in a convey rging movement on Changsha. Sixteen ese divisions, but numerically no larger than. the Japanese contingents, held the Last April, when the Japanese at tempted an' "encirclement of the Chinese troops In the north Hupeh, south Honan area, they used. the realtor portion of four divisions and tne brigade of cavalry. Opposini, them were five divisions of Geseral Li TsungeJon's crack' Kwang troops, supported by large concentrations ighly-trained mobile and guerilla units.
Both campaiims were _briliantly: executed by the Japanese—to a cer= tain extent. Japanese infantry reach= Turxpel, one of their primary objectives." Two "days. later, the Tapanese were retreating southward and eastward, leaving thousands dead and wounded on the field, white least one regiment was trapped in. the Tahun mountains, endeavouring ght ite way out,
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