WAR IN CHINA

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1943, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

HEAVY FIGHTING AT TUNGTING LAKE. LAust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.i CHUNGKING. May 11. Japanese troops landed from one hundred steam launches on the west shore of Tungting Lake, but were unable to penetrate inland towards Changsha, said the Chinese High Command. Severe fighting is progressing. Japanese casualties are heavy. Hard fighting is occurring west of Taihang Mountains where the Chinese are advancing towards tin 1 strategically important town of Linchwan

JAP DRIVI? IN HONAN. (Rec. 12.20.) CHUNGKING. May 12. The Tokio official radio claims that with the virtual completion of mopping up operations against the Chinese Twentv-fourth Army, the main body of Japanese on the Shansi Honan border area, launched a punitive drive against thirteen-thousand Chinese Communists. Two principal Chinese strongholds were captured, including the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army. t

JAPS PREPARE TO USE POISON GAS.

(Rec. 12.20) CHUNGKING, May 12. The Japanese are attacking along the shores of Lake Tungting, and preparing to use poison gas as an excuse for they are circulating false reports that the Chinese are using gas, states a military spokesman at Chungking. He added: The Japanese have already used ,ir as on at least eilght hundred occasions in China.

U.S. BOMBER RAID

NEW YORK, May 11

Another raid by American planes on Tonkin Province was announced by the Tokio radio, which stated the bombs killed many civilians. In Saturday’s raid, the Americans bagged 21 Japanese fighters . The Tokio radio said that seven United States bombers, escorted by Warhawk lighters, made the raid, but failed to hit military targets.