WAR IN CHINA

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1944, Page 2

WAR IN CHINA

Loyang Area ENEMY PUSHED BACK. (Rec/9.50.) LONDON, May 21. The ; China Central News says: The encircled Chinese garrison of Loyang pushed enemy forces from the town after killing and wounding two thousand, and destroying fifty tanks, in five days of savage street fighting. Thirty-nine British. American and Australian missionaries, with sixteen children, arrived at Paochi, in Shensi Province, from Honan Province, in a box car after twenty-four days’ travelling on the march to a railway station near the town of Honan. A Chinese spokesman stated: Chinese counter-atlacking in Honan Province had breached the Peiping- ; Hankow railway at several points j nnd were continuing their assaults. Strong Japanese reinforcements were | pouring into the Hankow area. ; Lieutenant-General Stilwell reported: We caused considerable damage in the Yangtse River area near Shasi. Thirty-six Japanese aeroplanes in--1 tercepted, of which we destroyed four 1 probably destroyed six. and damaged eight without loss to ourselves.” ; A Chinese spokesman stated: The j Japanese who cut the Lunghai rail- | wav westwards of Honan had joined | forces with the invaders from the i Shansi Province and had now reached Shansien. forty-nine miles from Tungkwan, the gateway to northwest China. CHINESE SUCCESSES. rßeec. 11.50.) CHUNGKING, Mav 20. A Chinese communique states: Chinese forces in Honan Province recaptured Kioshan, forty-five miles north of Sinyang. thus broadening a gap in the Japanese line to forty miles. A Chinese spokesman said: Chinese forces retain 90 per cent, of the town of Honan and they are determined to hold out. PROMISE OF HELP TO CHINA (Rec. 10.0) NEW YORK, May 21. Vice-President Wallace ‘will be returning to the United States from China in the middle of next J’uly. Mr Wallace disclosed that he is carrying to China a message that neither the Burma swamps, the Himalayas, nor the Japanese warships will prevent America from bringing the promptest aid to China. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says: Mr Wallace will visit Siberia when en route to China. ,He will be accompanied by Mr John 1 Hazard, Foreign Economic Administration adviser on Soviet supplies. This indicates that problems of supply in Siberia and supply relations between China and Russia will be studied. AMERICAN AIR RAIDS (Rec. 1.15.) LONDON, May 21. Chinese-American ’planes, operating with the Chinese Air Force, continued to attack the Japanese Yellow River bulge. Fighter-bombers attacked installations and truck concentrations in Suichen, causing casualties estimated at three thousand, and destroying at l&ast ten trucks and six armoured cars, and damaging some. Other ’planes attacked troop columns in Loning Road, destroying twentyfive trucks and causing many casualties