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JAPAN'S TOKIO-SINGAPORE CORRIDOR AIR FORCE PRACTICALLY " BUSTED " (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) CHUNGKING, April 29. General Cheiuiault told the United Press correspondent that Japan's China corridor between «Tokio and Singapore has become a dream pipeline. The Japanese had been unable to use the Peiping-Hankow railway for a month. The Canton-Hankow line had also not been in operation. The Japanese air force in China was practically " busted." The Fourteenth Air Force was opposed aerially only in the Shanghai area. General Cliennault expressed the opinion that the Japanese had only 2.500 planes in Japan proper, the correspondent added. The enemy supply lines supporting the Honan-lTupeh April drive had been hard hit, causing a collapse. There was a great improvement in the air—ground co-operation between the Chinese ground forces aiid the Fourteenth Air Force.
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Evening Star, Issue 25471, 30 April 1945, Page 6
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