JAPANESE ENTER KWEILIN

Southland Times, Issue 25513, 6 November 1944, Page 5

JAPANESE ENTER KWEILIN

INTENSE FIGHTING IN SUBURBS

(Rec. 9 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Nov. 4. The Japanese have penetrated Kweilin’s eastern, western and northern suburbs, where fighting ,is intense, states a Chinese communique. A Japanese column, which by-passed Kweilin, struck down the Hunan-Kwangsi railway towards Luchow and reached within six miles of Yungfu, 33 miles south-west of Kweilin.

The Chinese have recaptured all the strongpoints in the western and northern suburbs of Tungan, a railway town 90 miles north-west of Kweilin. CHINESE RECAPTURE LUNGLING The Chinese have recaptured Lungling after a five-day assault. The remnants of the Japanese garrison fled to the south.

General Huang Chieh, commander of the Chinese troops who recaptured Lunglirig, said that the Japanese put up a terrific last-minute battle. General Huang opened his drive against the city on May 11 and stormed in a month later with Chinese and American air support, but was forced out on June 17 by the reinforced Japanese. After reassembling his forces General Huang began another assault and again captured Lungling. An American Associated Press correspondent points out that Lungling is the principal remaining Japanese bastion on the Salween river front.- Its capture has removed the last major obstacle to the juncture of the Ledo and Burma roads, reopening the land supply route to China.