JAPANESE DROME AT CANTON HAMMERED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 170, 21 July 1942, Page 5

JAPANESE DROME AT CANTON HAMMERED

AMERICAN BOMBERS

Chinese Further Gains On

Vital Railway

Rec. noon

LONDON, July 20,

Lnited "States bombers blasted the Japanese airfield at Canton, dropping bombs among 60 or 70 planes on the ground and leaving six great fires, says a Chungking message. Another flight bombed Linchwan. Both raiding groups returned intact. The High Command states that the Chinese regained 15 miles on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway. The remnants of the Japanese around Hengfeng and Iyang are being mopped up. Fighting continues around Iyang, in southern Honan. The Central News says that the majority of the Japanese troops in south-eastern China are being moved north, leaving key cities manned with puppet troops. Before their departure the Japanese looted every village, taking livestock, scrap metal and grain, and commandeering thousands of labourers.

Chungking radio, quoting an unimpeachable source, says that the Japanese have begun concentrating fresh waves of troops against Russia in Jehol, Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces. Japanese troops "from Formosa. Malaya. Chekiang and Kiangsi are filling the new positions, and building fortifications and putting themselves in a position to outflank an eastern extension to Outer Mongolia.