AIR AND LAND FIGHTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 5

AIR AND LAND FIGHTING

Rec. 11 a.m

CHUNGKING, Nov. 22,

American airmen sank 14,200 tons of Japanese shipping last week, probably destroyed ten Zeros, and damaged four others.

Chinese airmen, supporting the ground troops, attacked an enemy column in the Li River area, sank 20 Japanese ships, and set fire to 50 others.

Chinese troops counter-attacked in Chihli, killing 2000 Japanese in closequarters fighting, but failed to capture the city. Japanese troops, after occupying Hsinan, Hokow, and Linli, are attempting to storm Hanshow, near Changteh, which is believed to be the major objective of the present offensive. • ' . , General Stilwell's communique states that Mitchell bombers, in a series of sweeps on the south-east coast, shot down a transport plane, sank a gunboat and freighter, and damaged five other freighters, also set on fire wharves and warehouses at Swatow and Japanese installations at Tzeli.

USE OF POISON GAS Rec. 12.30 p.m. CHUNGKING, Nov. 22. A Chungking special communique said that the Japanese troops in China's rice bowl used poison gas on a large scale to frustrate stiff Chinese resist- ' i ance and prevent the Chinese from counter-attacking. Written orders f6und oh Japanese corpses would be published shortly, it was said. .