The Archive · 1940

Chinese Claims

Chungking, Feb, 15.

Chinese forces in West Sulytian, in counter-attack, entered the city of Lingho on the night of February 12 fand are at present pursuing "retreating Japanese forees to the east, along the "highway towards Wuyuat cording to Chinese reports, Tt is stated that when' Japanese forces reached the Ninghsia border: on February 9, Chinese forces started counter-attack along. the entire front, stretching from a point west, of Lingho to a point east of Wuyuan.

Chinese troops near the Ninghsia border, it is reported, attacked. Huanyangmutou, south-west of Ling-ho and also Shanpa, north-west of Lingho, while Chinese forces in the Wula Mountains attacked 'Tatsetien, east of Wuyuan, Fighting is said to have reached great intensity by February 11, According to Chinese reports, the entire Japanese front collapsed on the night of February 12, after which, they began a general' withdrawal to the east towards Wuyuan,

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