CHINA OFFENSIVE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23216, 1 June 1945, Page 5

CHINA OFFENSIVE

Linchow Threatened LONDON, May 30. Chinese troops have reached the vicinity of Ishen, on the KweichowKwangsi railway, 43 miles west of the Japanese base of Liuchow, which is also threatened by Chinese forces advancing from Nanning, states to-day’s Chinese communique. The communique added: “The enemy are evacuating a number of towns. On the Fukien front, Chinese troops have recaptured Ningteh, on the coast 40 miles north of the treaty port of Foochow. The Japanese are retreating In the direction of Siapu, 30 miles north-east of Ningteh. “In Western Hunan, the Chinese flanks have made slight gains west of Paoching, a former supply base south-west of Chanosha, an important point on the Hankow-Canton railway. “North of the Yangtse, in Honan Province, the Chinese continued to attack on the north toward Chanhsien. on the Launghia railway. 50 miles east of the Yellow River bank, regaining all the positions they held on May 16. “In the southern part of the province the Chinese have reached a point three miles outside Hsihsiakow, the Japanese bastion 400 miles north-east of Chungking. Other units crossed the Loakwan River and continue to attack in the direction of Hsisslskow.”