MOST ENEMY TROOPS GONE
Rec. 11 a.m. CHUNGKING, June 22
The Chinese High Command announced that the Chinese attacking Liuchow airfield inflicted considerable casualties on the enemy. The Japanese have withdrawn the bulk of the Liuchow garrison to Kweilin, leaving only one or two thousand troops to defend the city.
General. Wedemeyer's communique states that Mustangs attacked a large concentration of Japanese trucks north of Hunan, destroying 95 vehicles and damaging 50 others. Fighters strafed and bombed the Paoching, Lingling, Kweilin, and Liuchow areas. Bombers attacked Dosing, the Japanese supply centre on the West River, west of Canton.
The Chinese High Command reported that fiye Chinese columns are pressing on Liuchow. One has penetrated to the south railway station. Others are attacking the air base on the southern outskirts of the city.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 7
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