WAR IN CHINA

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1943, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

JAPANESE REINFORCED Chinese Progress in Taihang Mountains [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Rec. 8.45) CHUNGKING, May, 19. Bitter fighting is raging in the suburbs of Chihkiang, where the Chinese are battling to outflank the Japanese offensive in the Lake Tungting region, according to a Chinese communique, which reveals that enemy forces holding Chihkiang received five or six thousand reinforcements 1 following a savage Chinese attack which killed one thousand men and netted heavy booty. Heavy casualties continue to be inflicted on both sides. The communique says that the Chinese are holding Japanese thrusts west of Lake Tunting, at Tsingshih. , , . The Chinese, counter-attacking in the Taihang Mountains, seized the town of Tunghaotsi and are now pushing into the outskirts of Linhsien, in the West Central Shansi Province, which the Japanese captured last month.

Raid on U.S. Base

JAPANESE 'PLANES DESTROYED.

(Rec. 7.50.) RUGBY, May 18. General Stilwell’s Headquarters stated that, according to a Chungking message, United States fighters destroyed seven Japanese fighters and two bombers, and probably destroyed ten other machines, when the enemy attempted to raid an advanced American air base in the Hunan Province on Monday. The damage to the base was negligible, but some nearby villages were damaged. All the American ’planes returned.— 8.0.W.