RIVER SHIPPING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21604, 5 January 1945, Page 4

RIVER SHIPPING

SUPPLIES FOR ENEMY ATTACK BY MUSTANGS AIR WARTN CHINA (10 a.m.j CHUNGKING. Jan. 4. Mustangs yesterday exploded a Yangtze River steamer, and also six vessels loaded with gasoline, and probably sank another steamer, says a Fourth U.S. Air Force communique. Other planes bombed the Shihhkiyano docks, SO miles south-east of Hankow, and destroyed two enemy planes m the air and one on the ground. The airfields at Hankow were attacked and three planes probably destroyed. Northern-based Mustangs attacked Tsinan airfield, about 200 miles south of Peiping, for the third time and destroyed 13 planes on the ground and damaged another 11. A Liberated sank a cargo ship west of Hainan. American fighters supporting Chinnese ground troops at Wanting bom tied and strafed enemy positions, wiping out 150 Japanese in one concentration with firebombs. . . Chinese ground forces-- besieging the key rail centre of Hochih, m the Kwangsi province, struck 25 miles south-eastwards and surprised and captured Szeenhsien, apparently isolating Hochih. Szeenhsien is near the Kwangsi-Kweichow railway, supplying the Japanese in Hochih.