Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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Journalists from Britain, United States, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Hong Kong, and major Chinese newspapers were flown to Changsha and carefully guided through the selected battlefields, where they inspected mountains of war trophies and heard testimony from soldiers and civilians.
They left satisfied, presenting their war souvenirs, swords, binoculars, Japanese military flags, to their audiences back home as proof of Chinese heroism and the Japanese defeat.
Both China and Japan were claiming victory simultaneously.
The only conclusion the foreign press could draw was that one side had to be lying, and it was not the side that had shown them the evidence.
Chen Kai Shek's real verdict came at the third Nanyue Military Conference, held from October the 16th to the 21st.
His anger was withering.
He condemned his generals for their obsession with defending sprawling outer perimeter lines, while leaving city centers barely fortified.
A mentality so rigid, he said.
The Japanese could announce the exact time of their advance, and their withdrawal in advance is still executed on schedule without any interference.
Generals, what a disgrace this is.
On the failure to capture prisoners, only about two hundred sixty three prisoners were claimed across the entire
punishments to match the rhetoric.
Liao Langqi, the commander of the shattered 58th Division, was sentenced to death for desertion and he was shot on October 22nd.
His men were so outraged that three regimental commanders resigned in protest.
The division was pulled from the order of battle entirely and given three months to rebuild.
Li Yu Tang, the commander of the Tenth Corps, was dismissed, though the Third Battle of Changsha would begin before his replacement could even take post, and he would be reinstated to play a key role in the city's defense.
On the Japanese side, the eleventh Army acknowledged one thousand six hundred and seventy killed, five thousand one hundred eighty four wounded, and about fourteen missing, far fewer than Chinese claims, though post war regimental history suggests the true figure was higher.
Lieutenant General Anami, who had championed the operation, found himself stung by the charge that the battle had served mainly as material for Chinese propaganda.
On November the twenty third, he reportedly reacted with visible displeasure when somebody in his headquarters said as much allowed.
Anami's annoyance was easy enough to understand.
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