Cutting through Chungking resistance in a sweeping drive over a 400- kilometre front in the Chungking Fifth War Zone, Japanese forees last hight were reporied to have inflicted etushing defeats on parte of General Taung-Jen's powerful army of 200 As the Japanese multi-pronged offensive gathered momentum, "scores of small villages and tewas were te-
With Japanese Forces me Southern, Shansi, May 10.
Moving separately. Japanese lumps today scored. heavily in their respective drives against Chungking concentrations in southern Shansi province, front Une reports reaching headquarters revealed.
One column, according to dispatches, smashed a large enemy concentration near" Yangehengkaoyal, approximately 10 kilometres southwest of Yuanku, while four other Units (rapped and inflicted heavy casualties on a large enemy concentra {lon near Shihelachwang, 20 kilometres west of Yuanku, 'Chungking forces at Hupachwang, 20 kilometres "south of Kaolochen, were defeated by Japanese, the reports stated, adding that other enemy forces west' of Wangmacchen, 10 lo metres northwest of Yuanku, were
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