The Archive · 1939

Statement on Loans

Clarified

Salt Obligations Treated Same as Customs Chungking, Mar, 29. ammunition.

Farther to the west a Japanese column which was taking part in the operations north of Kadan, 70 kilometres south-west of Nanchang, launched a flanking attack on 2,000 Chinese already engaged by another unit in the vicinity of Chihtienchang. The Chinese were said to have suffered a "crushing blow."

Three Chinese divisions numbering about 20,000 men were reported to be in the mountains east of Chihtienchang—Domei.

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