16,000 Japanese Casualties Claimed; Chinese Column At Outskirts of Pingyang Chungking, Feb. 12. 1HE Chinese counter-offensive in South Kwang: which started on February 9, is progressing smoothly, according to Chinese military dispatches reaching here from Kweilin, provincial capital. In three days of fighting, the Chinese claim to have inflicted 16,000] casualties on the Japanese and to have halted their columns at Pingyang and Wuming, Japanese forces at Shanling, northwest of Pingyang, are said now to be forced to withdraw to the south from the town towards Pingyang.
At the same time, a Japanese column, pushing northward from Nanning along the highway toward Wuming, is reported, to have met with a strong Chinese counter-attack south of Wuming, and is said to have been driven to a point south of Shuanchiao.
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