WAR IN CHINA
DEADLY BOMBING
Rec. noon. LONDON, April 5. Three thousand Japanese ' troops were drowned in the Yangtse River when Allied planes sank two transports yesterday off Wuhu, states the Chinese central news agency, and 1500 Japanese were killed in the bombing: of a military train near Wuhu. General Stilwell's communique reports the sinking of four small boats in the Red River, in Indo-China, and the damaging of three others, causing from 50 to 100 casualties. Other planes making a sweep over the Yangtse near Ichang damaged two river boats.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 82, 6 April 1944, Page 6
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