WAR IN CHINA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 195, 31 May 1945, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

RETREAT OF JAPANESE. SEVERAL TOWNS EVACUATED. REPORTED RECAPTURE OF NTNGTEH. (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. Chinese troops have reached the vicinity of Ishen, on the KweichowKwangsi railway, 43 miles west of the Japanese base of Liuchow, which is also threatened by Chinese forces advancing from Nanning, states to-day’s Chinese communique. Q)ho communique added: “The enemy are evacuating a number of towns. On the Fukien front, Chinese troops have recaptured Ningteh, on the coast 40 miles north of the'treaty port of Foochow. The Japanese are retreating in the direction of Siapu, 30 miles north-east of Ningteh. “In Western Hunan, the Chinese flanks have made, slight gains west of Paoching, a former supply base southwest of Chanoslia, an important point on the Hankow-Canton railway. “North of the Yangtse, in Honan Province, the Chinese continued to attack to the north toward Chanhsien, on the Launghia railway, 50 miles east of the Yellow River bank, regaining all the positions they held on May 16. “In the southern part of the province the Chinese have reached a point three miles outside HsihsiakoNv, the Japanese bastion 400 miles northeast of Chungking. Other units crossed the Laokwan River and continue to attack in the direction of Hsisslskow.”