FAR EAST WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1944, Page 5

FAR EAST WAR

JAPS IN KWEILIN

CHUNGKING, November 1. A Chinese communique admits the Japanese battled into the outskirts of Kweilin’s north railway station. Heavy fighting is also progressing in the city’s eastern suburbs. Three enemy columns are driving on towards Kweilin. 1 , 41 + The Tokio radio claimed that Kweilin is tightly ringed on all sides. After a two-day battle Chinese troops captured a Japanese position three miles north-east of Mangshm, in Yunnan Province, says the Associated Press. Generat Chennault s airmen bombed and strafed the Kweilin area, killing 475 Japanese troops. PROGRESS IN BURMA. KANDY, November 1. A south-east Asia communique states: British troops in Northern Burma advanced two miles down, the railway corridor to within one mile of Mawlu. In the Chin hills, Indian troops have cleared a Japanese strongpoint barring an advance along the Tiddim-Fort White Road. Contact was regained with the enemy 12 miles from Tiddim. , The Fourteenth Air Force bombed targets at Mangshih, Mansman and Wantung, says a Chinese message. Wantung bridge was completely destroyed and other bridges damaged. About twenty miles north-west of Changha, thirty-nine Japanese vessels were sunk in one day.