FAR EAST FIGHTING
JAP. NEW ATTACKS
CHUNGKING, May 14
The Japanese have again attacked west of Tungting Lake in an attempt to ruin the rich rice crop before the Allies start the reconquest of Burma. The Japanese have also made a new crossing of the Yangtse from the north in a supporting move intended to cut Chinese communications and block reinforcements moving to the kike area. The Chinese killed 500 Japanese in one sector and several hundred in another in the battle in the Taihan mountains.
The Chinese Army journal, “Taotangpao” says the Japanese operations around Tungting' Lake possess more economic than military importance. The Japanese are trying to seize the 1942 surplus rice crop and also prevent farmers gathering the first 1943 harvest, due in July, and making a second sowing. The Japanese also want to occupy Changteh and nearby towns in order to cut the shortest land and water communications between northern Hunan and Chungking. t
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1943, Page 5
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