JAPANESE ADVANCE

Grey River Argus, 21 October 1943, Page 5

JAPANESE ADVANCE

Over Salween River LONDON, Oct. 19. The first indication that the Japanese have established a bridgehead across the. Salween River in southj west China was given when General I Stilwell reported at Chungking that his fighter-bombers were supporting Chinese ground forces and attacked Japanese troop concentrations and supply dumps at Luku, in Yunnan Province, on the east bank of the Salween River, northwards of the point where the old Burma Road crosses ; the Salween River. The Associated Press points out ! that the Chinese have not acknow- ! hedged the loss of Luku or any Jap- , anese crossing of the Salween. Gen- • eral Stilwell’s communique stated I that heavy casualties were inflicted in the Luku raid, t