LATEST NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22457, 19 September 1944, Page 3

LATEST NEWS

P BITTER FIGHTING T WASHINGTON, Sept. 18

A Blue Network correspondent, broadcasting from the flagship off Palau, said that the fighting on Peleliu Island is the bitterest of the entire Pacific war. The Marines are making satisfactory progress but no portion of the island is safe from enemy fire. MENACE TO CHINA LONDON, Sept. 18

The Japanese forces advancing towards Kweilin not only threaten to cut China in hal-.es but may wreck the entire American establishment in China, says the American Press correspondent. The Japanese columns arc swinging into position to secure a line from Manchuria to the China Sea. Only a 100-mile gap between Yungming, 70 miles eastward of Kweilin, and Waitsap, 85 miles northwards of Canton, remains to be closed. The Japanese force which captured A ungming is reported to be within fifty miles of Kweilin. Another enemy force from Canton has seized Waitsap. A Chinese communique claimed the recapture of Lishui, in Chekiang province, and the Chinese forces have penetrated Wenchow, temporarily frustrating the Japanese attempt to gain control of the Wu river. RELIEF OPERATIONS MONTREAL, Sept. 18

Mr Lehman. addressing the U.N.R.R A. Council, said the fight against the privation, disease and destruction which the enemy has wrought is only just beginning. The enemy has been even more ruthless in his treatment of the occupied countries than has been known or anticipated.