DRIVE OH CHIHKIANG

Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 6

DRIVE OH CHIHKIANG

JAP. OFFENSIVE FAILS MANY CHINESE SUCCESSES CHUNGKING, May 26. The Chinese High Command announces that an area of 20 to 25 miles of North-western Paoching has been cleared of the enemy. The Japanese campaign to capture Chihkiang has concluded. The. Chinese counter-offen-sive against the Japanese north-south supply corridor in Indo-China and Burma ran into stiff opposition along the Lung River. The Chinese, after capturing Waiyuachen, on the_ river's west bank, 50 miles west of Liuchow. attempted to bridge the stream under heavy enemy crossfire. Chinese reinforcements are fighting to- the north along the east coast to relieve the local militia and are engaging small forces of Japanese. Marines landed at Siapu, 68 miles north-west of Foochow.

A communique reports that Chinese troops opened a counter-offensive in North Honan south of the Yellow River, in a third threat to Japan's overland corridor to Indo-China. The Chinese hurled" back the Japanese Sixty-ninth Division. The Third Brigade advanced up to 13 miles along a wide front south of Shan-Hsien, 450 miles north-east of Chungking. Over 3.450 of the enemy were killed.