WAR IN CHINA

Grey River Argus, 3 December 1943, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

CHANGTEH REOCCUPIED.

BY THE CHINESE.

LONDON, Dee. 1,

An official Chinese statement says: Japanese forces who entered Changteh on Monday were all ejected by this Wednesday morning. An Associated Fress correspondent at Chinese headquarters says it is announced that Chinese and American planes providing brilliant ail* cover, helped the Chinese troops lo drive the Japanese from Changten. The Chinese also recaptured Tenshan on the 'highway between iChanteh and Changsha, and wiped out most of the Japanese troops in two nearby villages. The Chinese columns bypassing Changteh with the evident intention of surrounding invading forces around the city, converged on the highway town‘of Linli, twenty miles north of Changteh. General Yu Changwan, the latest hero of the Asiatic war, personally dnected the bloody fighting which cleared Changteh s streets of the enemy..

Further Chinese Successes (Rec. 11.50) CHUNGKING. Dec. 2. A Chinese communique stated: After driving Japanese forces from Changteh, Chinese forces occupied six towns. Thev routed two Japanese divisions. Chinese forces also stormed eastern suburbs of Ichang, and entered two important towns on the Ichang-Hangkow highway, north of the Yangtze Piiver. In diversionary operations. Chinese forces captured Tangyang. 20 miles east of Ichang. and Kingmen. 55 miles to the north-east. Chinese successes are also reported in all other sectors west of Lake Tungting, where several important towns were recaptured, and a large number of invaders were wiped out. HONG KONG RAIDED. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. The Tokio radio announced that ten Allied bombers and fighters raided Hong Kong causing negligible damage. '