LUNGLING RETAKEN

Grey River Argus, 19 September 1944, Page 3

LUNGLING RETAKEN

CHINESE SUCCESSES (Rec, 11.30) CHUNGKING, Sept 18 A Chinese communique says: Chinese troops re-occupied Lungling, tne Japanese unexpectedly withdrwing eleven miles, to the south-west to Mangshih, where they are believed to be entrenching. The Chinese counted 250 Japanese dead at Lungling. The Chinese are also regaining the hills to the north-east of Lungling and the nearby village of NanChang repulsing small Japanese counter-attacks. General Stilwell’s comcunique reports that Liberators’ continuous bombing has almost demolished t he Japanese-occupied Hengyang, and has extensively damaged Lingling, Chuanhsien, and Tunganhsien. Liberators sank five cargo vessels, aggregating eight thousand tons, around Hong Kong. Warhawks sanx a schooner in Luichow Bay. and damaged six river junks, and strafed Japanese barracks at Kiyaiig. One of our aircraft is missing.

CENSORSHIP RELAXED IN CHINA

(Rec. 11.0) NEW YORK, Sept. 18 T’he New York “Times’s” Chungking correspondent says that although General Chiang Ka Shek has not given concrete orders to relax the censorship that has been strangling China for years, he has orally advised the Board of Censors to pass within reason everything factually true> Delegates to the people’s political Council have never spoken so sharply as now to Ministers regarding the corruption, inefficiency, shocking treatment of Chinese soldiers, ana other evils of a Moribund Regime, and never previously have Chinese newspapers reported speeches and criticisms so fully. There is no telling what good things might happen once the people are able to talk frankly about bad things, says the correspondent.

U.S. ’PLANES IN CHINA. NEW YORK, September 16. Tokio official radio stated that American ’planes operating in China in September totalled 8,400, compared with 290 last Spring. The radio also commented on the apathy of Manila residents concerning probable air raids, and urged them to construct shelters immediately.