DRIVE LOSING HEADWAY
JAPS. SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES (Rec. noon.) CHUNGKING, Oct. 8. The Chinese High Command announced that the Japanese drive towards Kweilin had lost headway. Enemy columns north r west of Pingnan suffered heavy casualties, and retreated two miles. The Chinese are still defying enemy attacks 12 miles west of Hingan. The Chinese also recaptured the small town of Diongloh. 15 miles south-east of Foochow. ' ;; General StilwelPs communique reports that fightersj.wiped out about 150 Japanese of a cavalry column in a mountain pass south-west of Wuchow. Fighter-bombers attacked bridges northeast and south of Chuanhsien on the* supply lines of the Japanese advance towards Kweilin. In air attacks since January 233 Japanese sea-going ships have been sunk, aggregating 500,000 tons. The Fourteenth Air Force in September sank 42 enemy sea-going ships, aggregating 110,000 .tons, and
probably sank 11 and damaged 65. In addition, 445 river craft were sunk, 50 were probably -sunk, and 1,700 damaged. Ground strafing killed about 4,000 enemy .troops. Forty-two .enemy aircraft were shot down. The American losses in combat were, three planes.
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Evening Star, Issue 25301, 9 October 1944, Page 5
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