WAR IN CHINA

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1943, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

JAPANESE GAINS

At Heavy Cost

NEW YORK, May 16.

The Associated Press correspondent with the U.S.A.A.F., says that Warhawks yesterday shot down 15 and probably destroyed 10 more Japanese ’planes raiding the American base at Yunnan aerodrome, Kupming. Sixty ’planes, including 35 bombers, participated in the raid, which was the biggest thus far against the American base in China. Inaccurate bombing caused heavy casualties to civilians too near the target, but only one American was slightly wounded. One Liberator was destroyed on the ground. ■

Japanese Successes TOWNS TAKEN NEAR LAKE TUNGTING.

(Rec. 8.30.) CHUNGKING, May 17. A Chinese communique admits the loss of Chiangkou and Kungang, north-west of Lake Tungting. It adds that more than a thousand Japanese were killed in fierce fighting on the outskirts of Tsingshih, an important highway centre north-west of Lake Tungting, but the enemy was reinforced and continued to attack.

Several hundred Japanese were killed in the Eingman sector, north of the Yangtse, where the Chinese are making a diversionary attacking effort to relieve pressure against the Lake Tungting forces. The United Press Chungking correspondent says: The recent advance has given the Japanese control of most of the triangular area between Lake Tungting and the Yangtse. The Japanese are now trying to clear the entire west shore of Lake Tungting