JAPANESE BREAK INTO LOYANG

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 195, 16 May 1944, Page 5

JAPANESE BREAK INTO LOYANG

Chinese Again Sever Strategic Railway LIKELY ENEMY AIMS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received May 15, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, JJay 14. The Japanese yesterday broke through gaps in the west, east, and north west walls of Loyang city, but are being halted, says a Chungking communique. Enemy armoured forces are vigorously attacking the northwestern suburbs. lighting on the Mlenchih sector has shifted to areas east of the city. Chinese forces in a counter-attack have broken the Japanese hold on the PekingHankow raijway by recapturing Sniping, 100 miles south of Chengchow, and are also encircfing the enemy at Chumatieu, five miles south of Sniping. Tfiis counter-attack was at the point where last wee|< the northern Japanese force joined the southern column, thus completing the conquest of the railway, says the Associated Press correspondent. The Japanese are already reported .to have brought engineers for reconstruction of the lines, which the Chinese had removed. Chungking authorities, while recognizing a threat to Tunkwan by the Japanese tfirust across the Yellow River from Shansi, are inclined to regard the movement as a diversionary feint at the most. They are convinced that the Japanese plans call for the occupation not only of the Peking-Hankow railway, but also the control iof the whole CantonHankow railway as the answer to Admiral Nimitz’s avowed project of landing American troops on the China coast.