澳洲报刊有关桂系报导选(5)

澳洲报刊有关桂系报导选(5)

【1939年日军第一次入侵广西，白崇禧在几乎耗尽了国军第一只机械化部队——杜聿明的第五军才攻占了被日军死守的昆仑关之后，几次想收复南宁未果。虽然此时广西境内大军云集，有桂系自己的嫡系部队31军和46军，也有中央军，兵力远超日军，而且还处于内线作战，占有天时、地利、人和，但在昆仑关战役之后，就是无法再撼日军一步，直至来年日军自动撤出广西。可以说，第一次日军入侵广西期间（亦即我们通常所说的桂南会战期间），是号称小诸葛的白崇禧指挥生涯中最失败的一段时期——敌情判断失误、攻守进退失据、战略战术失常、将士不肯用命。回顾这段历史，每每令人扼腕。下面的这篇报道，间接印证了国军在包围南宁无法攻下而自己遭受惨重损失之役中，白崇禧指挥的无能。】

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CHUNGKING/>, Friday.

A High Command spokesman announced to-day that the Chinese had almost surrounded Nanning/> (South China/>), which the Japanese captured some weeks ago.

Nanning/>/>, a treaty port in Kwangsi province, on the Yukiang, is the gateway for petrol and other essential supplies from French Indo-China. Its loss has isolated China/>/> from all overseas supplies.

The spokesman declared that the military situation on the Kwangsi front had developed in favour of the Chinese. Four thousand Japanese were completely isolated north- east of Nanning/>/>. Japanese planes had tried to drop food to them, but most of it had fallen behind the Chinese lines.

A Japanese report on Wednesday said that the Chinese failed in an attempt to recapture Nanning/>/> on Sunday, and left 2,750 dead.

The Argus. Saturday 30 December 1939, p.1.