FAR EAST WAR
CHINESE CLAIMS CHUNGKING, Sept. 25. Although the Japanese drive on Kweilin has officially been reported by the Chinese as having been stalled 40 miles north-eastward of the city, the Chinese High Command has indicated that there is a danger that the Japanese might outflank Kweilin. An enemy column 7 miles north-east-ward of Kweilin, striking south could swing south-west to cut the railway southward of Kweilin, thus neutralising the city, and also threatening Liuchow, 90 miles further south. Chinese forces are fighting another Japanese column nine miles to the north-east-ward of Wuchow. Chinese forces in south Kwangsi recaptured Sunshing, 75 miles south-westward of Canton. The. Japanese made attacks on Paochin.g, 63 miles westward of Hengyang and were repulsed. The American Fourteenth Air Force reports that the Chinese-Am-erican win? accounted for more than 2600 tons of Japanese shipping in the week ended September 20. There are many Japanese planes within striking distance of the active war fronts, but the enemy has been hesitant to throw in air power.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1944, Page 6
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