COUNTER-ATTACKS
BEGUN BY CHINESE
(Rec. 11 a.m.) CHUNGKING. June 10.
The Central News agency says that Chinese guerrillas and' regulars hava launched strong counter-attacks near Nanchang. A Chinese column operating behind the Japanese lines advanced 12 miles westward of Nanchang, recapturing a strategic point near Wenshoukung
The Chinese drive in central Anhwei province is developing. The Chinese captured Motien, eastward of Hofei, and another Chinese column is only 10 miles north-westward of Hofei.
The Associated Press, commenting on the Reuter dispatch that Anglo-Ameri-can air force units have arrived in China, says that authoritative quarters explained that a separate American or British air force is not operating in. China.
Concerning some new American-built planes flown to China recently, officials said that these did not signify the arrival of units of the United States air force, as the machines had been consigned to the Chinese Air Force.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 5
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