JAPANESE ADVANCE
Overrun Highways From Burma Into China SALWEEX KIVER NOT CROSSED Rec. 2.30. CHUNGKING, Oct. 22. A Chinese military spokesman admitted to-day that Japanese forces have overrun the three principal highways from Burma into China, fanned out along a 105-mile stretch on the west bank of the Salween River and occupied three important ferry stations. He denied that the Japanese had forced a crossing of the Salween River, which bars the invasion route into Western China. The spokesman said Chinese guerillas and regular troops were active on the west bank of the Salween and in control of a 13-mile stretch and two ferry crossings south of Luku. To-day's Chinese communique reports that a fierce battle is proceeding nine miles north-west of Luku.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 252, 23 October 1943, Page 5
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