Chinese Retake Town, Make Other Progress
(Rec. 1 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Dec. 14. . A Chinese communique says that the Chinese, in a smashing success in the ' “Rice Bowl” region have recaptured Linli, • 25 miles north of Changteh, and have aslo recaptured a number of villages. The ' • Chinese are hotly pursuing the retreating enemy. Despatches from the front declare that , the Chinese have recaptured Shihmen, which yesterday’s Chinese communique admitted the Japanese had captured. ' The Japanese garrison is now reported to be retreating north-eastward. Other Chinese columns have reached the outskirts of Linli. The Chinese claim that the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. General Stilwcll’s communique states that for the second successive night. Liberators bombed the Japanese air base • at Hankow. Liberators, escorted by fighters, in daylight blasted Hanoi (Indochina) railway yards. The Japanese, retaliating, attacked an advanced American base. Lightnings intercepted, shooting down two and probably destroying two others.
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Northern Advocate, 15 December 1943, Page 3
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