JAPANESE BOMBED

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22467, 30 September 1944, Page 6

JAPANESE BOMBED

HEAVY ATTACKS IN CHINA CHUNGKING, Sept. 28. Fourteenth Air Force planes heavily strafed and bombed 3000 Japanese troops, probably forward elements of the enemy’s western pincer movement, who were observed in a wooded area 15 miles north-west of Sinning. General Stilwell’s communique says that the planes repeatedly attacked large numbers of the enemy south and east of Kweilin, also around the Taohsien, Yuangchow and Yungming areas. Warhawks strafed

entrenched Japanese troops on a hill north-east of Paoching, enabling the Chinese ground units to take the position. Warhawks on the Salween front destroyed the Tingka bridge, on the Burma road. Fighters north-east of Indo-China strafed shipping, destroying seven boats. They also again hit the Dara bridge, across the Menan river in Thailand, after the Japanese had begun to repair damage caused by previous bombings. New Japanese Drive

Japanese forces are advancing in a new direction into the Kwangsi province, while other enemy troops have virtually encircled Paoching says the American Press. The new drive came from the Kwangtung province, 110 miles south-west of Canton, pushing in a north-westerly direction towards the river, apparently aiming to block the escape of the Chinese south of Wuchow. The United Press says that a Japanese column is now within five miles of the American airfield at Tanchuk.