SHANGHAI BOMBED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21777, 28 July 1945, Page 6

SHANGHAI BOMBED

400-TON ATTACK

WIDE PACIFIC RAIDS SOUTH JAPAN HARD HIT (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 27. The Far East Air Force has dropped over 400 tons of bombs on enemy airfields and shipping in the Shanghai area, states General MaeArthurs communique. They set fire to installations at Kiangwan, Woosung, Lunghwa, Tachang and Tinghai aerodromes. hit six freighter-transport and a gunboat. Reconnaissance bombers hit Fusan town waterfront facilities in Korea, harassed enemy coastal craft off South China and damaged others in the Gulf of Siam. Despite adverse weather, United States Seventh Air Force heavy bombers from Okinawa cratered runways on Kikai Island in the Ryukyus, struck the important Tsuii air centre in northern Kyushu, setting fire to fuel storage facilities. Thirty enemy fighters intercepted, of which seven were shot down and one probably shot down. One bomber was lost. Patrol planes were active over a wide area, bombing the Otake aerodrome in southern Honshu. R.A.A.F. Blows In Borneo

Royal Australian Air Force and light naval units started large fires and explosions and wrecked many motor vehicles in attacks against enemy coastal concentrations in Borneo. A navy patrol plane bombed and destroyed a freighter near Kuching. Enemy planes ineffectively raided the Balikpapan area before dawn. Australian fighters shot down one. Royal Australian Air Force search planes cratered the Tanamon airstrip and attacked enemy barracks at Kendari in the Celebes. Netherlands air force fighters destroyed enemy water craft and inflicted 1 casualties in north-western New Guinea. Marine medium bombers, with Royal New Zealand Air Force fighters, started numerous fires in Kavi-eng and burned workshops and storage areas at Rabaul and attacked enemy remnants on Bougainville. Elements of the Australian Seventh Division in Borneo pressed steadily forward along the main highway leading north-east from Balikpapan and made contact with a small enemy group six miles north of Mount Batochampar. ! Marine aircraft yesterday bombed and roclceted radio and radar stations on Amai Island, in the Ryukyus, says Admiral Nimitzjs communique. Privateers sank three and damaged five fishing vessels in Sagai Gulf, south of Tokio Bay. Search aircraft sank a small freighter in Tsushima Straits.