Details of the reported battle for the Kunlunkwan Pass were revealed for the frst time by the Chinese milltary spokesman at this afternoon's Bloody battle.
"Aller the Chinese counter-offen~ sive in South Kwangsi, Chinese forces recaptured Kunlunkwan on December 17 but lost it again on December 19 when the Japanese counter attacked," the Chinese spokesman declared.
"On the following day, the Chinese once more took the pass, only to lose it again on December 23. They captured the pass for the third time on. December 20. In this action, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.
"tu the final Japanese counter-
cupying part of the strategic pass, attack, the Japaneie succeeded In o2- but it was completely retaken bythe Chinese on December 31. A. Japan. ese brigade was wiped out and' the those 3 spokesman commander std to. be among Chinese Pollowing-up their successes, the spokesman also claimed, Chinese. forces captured Chiutang, 30 miles north-east of Nanning, on January 4.
At present, he concluded, Japanese troops were' being landed' at Yam-chow and Fancheng and from these points were pouring northward towards Nanning.
The spokesman also revealed that "Chinese vanguards in a counteroffensive in Kwangtung province have reached a point 20 miles northwest of Canton."—Reuter, Chinese Bombed in tsingtao, Jan. 19.
Japanese naval aircraft inflated heavy losses on bandit troops in the areas around Ankiu on the Shantung Railway and Chucheng, west of 'Tsingtao in Shantung, on' Wednesday morning and afternoon, according to communique issued today by the headquarters of the Japanese Resldent Naval OMicer here.
The air units ce-operated with ground forces mopping up stragglers. A Japanese warship bombarded Chic hose positions at the western end of Litao Island off the eastern tip of the Shantung promontory, the statement said.
Seaplanes of a Japanese warship on the same day demolished pill-box positions and a group of junks east of Haiyang, north-east of Tsingtao, Positions on the northern-most point of Liteo Islnd also were Bombed—
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