AMERICAN EFFORT
FROM LAST MAJOR BASE
vf CTi ?' 45 am J t. EW Y°RK, Oct. 4. JHgnters and bombers from the last major American air base in eastern ri™ +^ re T trying desperately to slow iS™/ Japanese drive in Kwangsi a?prt Pro Re P°rtlng this, the, Associate ?if cf S 4 £ orrespondent at the base says pat the combat aircraft evacuated from half a dozen bases already lost crowd this airfield, over which the Japanese will not venture because the American fighters then take a heavy toll. J
Thousands of Chinese refugees mostly from the Kweilin area, passed through the base yesterday fleeing irom the Japanese invasion. It was the first major migration for nearly four years.
Men, women, and children, laden with bags of rice and household pos* sessions, jammed boxcars, scores of which were delayed in the railway yards awaiting engines. Cholera has appeared. Doctors are giving inoculations, but serum is in short supply.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1944, Page 7
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