MAIN 'DROME FALLS
CHINESE ATTACK
A RAII.AVAY REGAINED (11 a.m.) CHUNGKING, June 29. The Chinese spokesman has announced that the Chinese have captured the main airfield at Liuchow, also the city’s southern railway station. yhe Chinese spokesman said Liuchow had been burning since June 23. The city’s core was destroyed. The Chinese had regained virtually the whole of the Kweichow-Kwangsi railway, which was the first they had recovered since the outbreak of war in July, 1937. However, the line needed rebuilding. The spokesman added that tht Chinese were 10 miles from Kweilin. The High Command announced that the Chinese battling for Liuchow seized part of the former American airfield southward of the city and captured the railway station in the western suburbs of the city. Reinforced Japanese troops counterattacked south-eastwards of the city but were repulsed. The Japanese have withdrawn further north along the Chekiang coastal highway from Wenchow.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21753, 30 June 1945, Page 5
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