CHINESE DRIVE
TO HANGCHOW BAY
Rapid Jap Withdrawal Along Vital Coastline
Rec 12.30. CHUNGKING, June 21. The Chinese, who are driving toward Hangchow Bay, crossed the Wu River and have advanced 31 miles beyond Wenchow against fitful resistance from a rapidly withdrawing enemy, says the United Press correspondent. With the exception of a halfhearted and futile attempt to check the Chinese coastal drive with a seaborne relief force, shortly after the fall of Foochow in May the Japanese made no apparent niove to reduce the threat to thenvital Hangchow Bay front, through which is funnelled much vital m The ia japanese coastal garrisons continue to withdraw toward the tough defensive system wound Ningpo. It now appears that the entire coastline below that point, eSept the heavilly fortified CantonHongkong area, may be abandoned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 5
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