POTENTIAL INVASION AREA
CHINESE SUCCESS IN FUKIEN Chungking, June 7. Chinese sweeping the Japanese out of Fukien Province 450 miles west of Okinawa launched a series of attacks against enemy units holed up in Futing covering the southern approaches to Wenchow. A second Chinese force 640 miles south-west in the Kwangsl Province captured Mengsdi.n. With the end of the Okinawa battle in sight the Chinese have laid open a 105-mile stretch of the Fukien coast above liberated Foochow and are now’ under 10 miles from the Chekiang border. The freed coast constitutes a potential American invasion area. Once the Japanese are pushed across the Chekiang border the only Japahese pocket in the whole of the Fukien Province will be Amoy, 300 miles north-east of Hong Kong.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 9 June 1945, Page 5
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