JAPS. ADVANCE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 166, 16 July 1942, Page 5

JAPS. ADVANCE

CHINA COAST AREAS

Fear Of Air Attacks By United Nations' Planes

United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, July 15

Admitting that the Japanese had captured Wenchow, the Chinese spokesman at Chungking said the enemy had also taken Juian, 12 miles south-west. Porthead and Deep Bay had also fallen to the enemy. These operations, like the Japanese activities against Fukien and Foochow, arise from fear of their potential use by the United Nations. The spokesman asserted that the Japanese were organising 20 new divisions in China which was evidence of bigger ambitions, but he said he did not know where or when they would strike. A Chinese communique reports that the Japanese who moved southwards from Patuchen, in Eastern Kiangsi, suffered heavy losses and retreated. All the Japanese attacks had been stopped eastward of the Yuhua Mountains. The Japanese had been in retreat since Saturday last and fighting now centred around Linchwan. The Central News reported that 40 Japanese and Chinese puppet officials were killed when Formosan revolutionaries tossed bombs into a park at Amoy during exercises commemorating the establishment of the puppet Government, the casualties including an unnamed high Japanese official.