POSITION IN CHINA
BATTLE STILL RAGING FOR GHANGSHA JAPANESE ADVANCING IN HONAN (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) CHUNGKING, June 13. Heavy fighting continues for Changsha. In one sector the Chinese killed 300 Japanese. The enemy threat to Tungkwan, in Honan province, has increased. A Chinese communique says the Japanese are advancing on two towns 20 miles east of Tungkwan. Tiie Japanese pushing southwards from the sector east of the Hankow-Peiping railway scored a considerable advance and are now attacking the important junction city of Chowkiakow. General- Chennault's Liberators sank a Japanese freighter and damaged a cruiser off the south-east China coast.
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Evening Star, Issue 25201, 14 June 1944, Page 6
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99POSITION IN CHINA Evening Star, Issue 25201, 14 June 1944, Page 6
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