ENEMY ADVANCE
EVACUATION OF KWEIYANG
CHUNGKING, December 2.. The Chinese Provincial Governmentof Kweichow has ordered the evacuation of all non-essential workers from Kweiyan'g, capital of the province, pn: the mam road from Peiping to Burma. Thousands .- of refugees from other areas as well as many of Kweiyang's 200,000 inhabitants are leaving, i The Japanese claim to have seized5 the only two roads leading into Kwei- r chow Province and also say that they control the Kwangsi-Kweichow railway, that Lixningkwan. the southern gateway to Kweichow, has been captured, and that Nanning is being reduced. .-•■-"
The Chinese High Command admits the Japanese penetration of Kweichpw Province. Chinese forces have captured Chefang, one of the last Burma Road towns in China held byN the Japanese. Chinese guerrillas last night raided the seaport of Tsingtao, in the Shantung Province, and attacked the Japanese headquarters, killing many officers • and men. .
General Wedeineyer's ,coinmimique reports that Liberators yesterday bonded installations at Samah Bay, Hainan. Island, Fort Bayard on Liuchow Peninsula, Kowloon, and docks at Hong Kong. All returned. ■ ■ •, :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 5
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172ENEMY ADVANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 5
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