CHINESE SUCCESSES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25111, 30 December 1942, Page 3

CHINESE SUCCESSES

JAPANESE FORCE ROUTED

GUERRILLAS OBSTRUCT ENEMY CHUNGKING, (Rec. 10 p.m.) Dec. 28. The Chinese routed a Japanese force occupying Hysihui, 80 miles east of Hankow, while successful operations against the Japanese are continuing in the Yangtze Valley, reports the correspondent of the United Press. The Japanese were forced out of Hysihui after occupying it for three days. The Japanese garrison at Tse-fu-shu, 150 miles south-west of Hankow, suffered heavy casualties when the Chinese carried out a night attack. Brief Japanese sorties in Western Hupeh were repulsed, and a Japanese depot at Hingcheng was destroyed. Repeated attacks by Chinese guerrillas have obstructed Japanese efforts to build new roads and airfields in Hainan.

Chinese guerrillas report that a large number of Chinese puppet troops have been executed in North China for " dangerous thoughts " or communications with bandits. The Japanese called the latest purge " purification."

Famine conditions are growing worse in Honan province, and families are exchanging girls for millet or wheat. Some people are eating grass, tea leaves and tree bark. A Ignited States air force bombed Japanese concentrations at Tengyaeh. All the bombs hit the target area, damaging enemy installations and starting large fires. One anti-air-craft battery was silenced. All the planes returned safely. For the third time in a week B2s's attacked Lashio, inflicting heavy damage in the warehouse and barracks area. Two large fires and several smaller ones were started. General J. Stillwell announced that in an aerial battle at Yunnan on Christmas Day the United States Air Force * shot down three enemy bombers and five fighters. The Americans lost two planes. Chinese air defence headquarters in Kunming announced that in Sunday's raids on Yunnan the Japanese lost eight of 21 bombers.

COMBINED OFFENSIVE ESSENTIAL FOR EARLY VICTORY (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) CHICAGO, Dec. '29. The Chinese Ambassador, Dr Wei Tao-ming, made a statement that the opening of a combined United Nations' offensive in the Pacific would quickly end the war with Japan. China did not need food urgently, because she had been able to master the war position sufficiently to keep food near the fighting fronts. China was deeply grateful to the American Air Force for its accomplishments in China.