CHINESE SUCCESSES

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1943, Page 6

CHINESE SUCCESSES

JAP. LOSSES HEAVY

CHUNGKING, June 13

A Chinese Army communique says the Chinese attacking at Sungtze have recaptured several points south of the city, inflicting heavy casualties. Meanwhile the Japanese in the Chientsusi sector in the south of the Hupeh Province are showing signs of collapse, after suffering heavy losses. The Chinese have destroyed several sections of the Canton-Hankow railway between Hankow and Yochow in a drive to sever communications and supply lines and isolate Yochow, which the Chinese havg twice raided. Fierce fighting continues northeast of Ichang and north-west of Hankow.

I The Japanese lost .14,290 killed, and I the Chinese lost one-third of an army corps in the battle for the Tiheng , Mountains, according to the National i Military Council, in a war review. Chinese counter-attacks have recovered practically all the lost positions, I but the enemy is reinforcing and reI plenishing his supplies, indicating the imminence of another Japanese atI tack—the sixteenth in this region. The Chinese have gained a new success north-east of Ichang and north-west of Hankow, according to the Associated Press correspondent in Chungking. The Chinese occupied Wangchiachang, north-east of Ichang, after an all-night battle, in which 300 of the enemy were killed and many others wounded. The Chinese have I penetrated to Yingshan, 90 miles 1 north-east of Hankow, inflicting I heavy casualties. Heavy fighting is in progress north of Tungting lake, where the reinforced Japanese have been counter-attacking for two days. The War Ministry has issued new regulations designed to improve the treatment of recruits in the Chinese I Amy, who henceforth will be permitj ted to bring their own blankets, i shoes, uniforms, and pocket money. , Officers who confiscate recruits’ be- | longings will be severely punished. The new regulations also provide for every soldier to receive 24 ounces of' [rice daily, “to which no sand or other [foreign matter may be added.” Fur- , thermore, officers are required to share their men’s barracks, and are not permitted to lock soldiers up overnight. * SUNGTSE RETAKEN I (Recd. 12.30 p.m.) ’ CHUNGKING, June 13. 1 The recapture of Sungtse and other fun-named enemy-held positions between Ichang and Shasi, is announced iby the Chinese High Command. fSungtse’s streets were strewn with corpses. Large quantities of supplies were seized by the Chinese.