Canton, June 4, Chinese attempts to regain control of the Hongkong route as well as to recapture Foochow were blasted by Japanese operations during May, according to a communique released yesterday afternoon by the Press Section of the Japanese Expeditionary Force to South China, The review stated: 1, Japanese forces had successfully landed, in the face of withering enemy fire, at Kiatze Harbour and had destroyed Chinese transportation facilities; 2. Chungking troops belonging to 160th Division and independent Ninth Brigade, as well as other Chinese troops, numbering approximately 40,000, which attempted to retake the Hongkong route were encircled and destroyed in the region of south-east Waichow, in Kwangtung Province during the middle of May; 3, A smashing blow was delivered by Japanese troops against powerful Chinese troops in the sector northwest of Futsing, in Fukien Province on May 13; 4. Advancing against Chinese troops concentrated near Sharigantien, northwest of Chaoyang in Kwangtung Province, on May 23, Japanese troops scored a complete victory
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