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TUE 10 OCT 1939War day 40China, Burma & India
By October 10, the Japanese 11th Army had been pushed back out of northern Hunan. Its attempt to take Changsha had ended without the capture it sought.
By October 10, 1939, the Japanese 11th Army had completed its withdrawal from northern Hunan province, and Chinese forces had regained all their former positions. The retreat ended an abortive attempt to capture Changsha and the area around Tungting Lake. Chinese Nationalist forces under General Xue Yue had repelled the Japanese and won the First Battle of Changsha. The date marked the close of an operation that had begun on September 17. The Japanese advance had not secured its principal objectives. [Source 1](https://www.onwar.com/wwii/chronology/193910.html)
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