SOUTH-EAST ASIA
Enemy Battered From Air
LONDON, January 10.
“United States fighters strafed six Japanese river steamers and numerous auxiliary craft on the Yangtse and machine-gunned troops on the river banks," states Lieutenant-General Joseph Stilwell's communique. “Fighterbombers raided Saidon, in Central Burma, starting fires. They also set fire to docks, warehouses, and railway buildings at Camduong, in Indo-China anq strafed railway cars near Laokay. Chinese-manned Mitchell bombers sank a small cargo ship off the coast of South-east China.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22789, 13 January 1944, Page 2
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