Enemy Disorganised by Swift Russian Advance

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 191, 14 August 1945, Page 5

Enemy Disorganised by Swift Russian Advance

LONDON, August, 12. The Japanese rapidly falling back before the Red Army’s three-front assault have already lost Northern ±vlanchukuo from the strategic point of view, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. The Japanese in many areas are completely disorganised. They are withdrawing without plan and without forming pockets of frantic resistance. “Red Army troops to-day continued to fight their way forward into the depths of Manchukuo,” states a Russian communique. Troops of the First Far Eastern Command in the Maritime Province, continuing their offensive in difficult, mountainous wooded country, captured Mulingchan, and Kunchung and occupied a number of inhabited places. They advanced between nine and a half miles and 22 miles. “Troops of the Second Far Eastern Command, south-west of Khabarovsk, in conjunction with the Amur River flotilla, fought their way into a number oi riverside localities on the south bank of the Amur River. Between the Rivers (Jssuri and Sungari, we captured a number of localities. “Troops of the Trans-Baikal Command, continuing their offensive along the railway line from Hailar to Harbin, captured the railway town of Yakoshih and other places. Russian mobile forces in a number of sectors forced crossings in the Khangan Range and established themselves on the eastern slopes. “Ships’ landing parties from the Russian Pacific fleet captured two North Korean ports. Ships and planes from the Pacific on Friday and yesterday struck against enemy shipping in North Korean ports and at sea, sinking two Japanese destroyers and 14 transports. Russian planes yesterday attacked enemy railway junctions in Manchukuo.