TRAFFIC CONTINUES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 11

TRAFFIC CONTINUES

BURMA ROAD BOMBINGS

CHINESE FIGHTING BACK

VICTORIES CLAIMED

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Received October 24, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oclober 23. A Brilish- subject, Mr. Arthur Lewis Pollard-Urquhart, died at Kunming as a result of a Japanese i air raid on the Burma Road. I A message from Chungking says that, despite Japanese bombing ! raids. ; raffic on the Burma Road rej mains unaffected and that only ! minor damage has been suffered. A Shanghai dispatch says that ! Chinese regulars and guerrillas are fighting the Japanese on a 1500-mile front from the north. In Southern China they report many victories. Large numbers of Japanese were withdrawn from the north recently jfor concentration on Hainan Island, where there are reported to be several hundred thousand men awaiting a "golden opportunity." The Japanese are heavily reinforcing the Licheng district in south-eastern Shansi, where the' Chinese claim to have stormed Langsi, 75 miles north of Wuhu ; killing 2000 Japanese troops. The Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press says that Japanese reports indicate that the Chinese are continuing effective military operations on various fronts, fighting 2889 engagements in September.