FALL THOUGHT NEAR
Battle For Changsha LONDON, June !«-. The Japanese today captured Liew-v yang, Chuchow, and Siangtan. keypoinfa® round Changsha which is still in Chin-q nese hands, though there is savage fight-8 ing in the suburbs, and its fall seem.*’ imminent, says a .Chungking Liuyong is 38 miles east of Chandsha.j and Siangtan 19 miles south-west. Chu-t chow is on the Canton-Hankow railway' 22 miles’below Changsha.
Fierce street fighting is reported in Ningsian, 31 mites west of Changsha. ( Fighting has continued in Liling, 27 miles soutte-west of Changsha. The Japanese in Honan have captured Chuehshan, leaving the Chinese control-j ling less than 45 miles of the PekingHankow railway. The Allied forces on the Salween River, gained positions 200 yards from the Japanese in Sungshan, where there is heavy! fighting, ami blocked' 'the Burma Road about five miles west of the Salween’ crossing.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 225, 20 June 1944, Page 5
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142FALL THOUGHT NEAR Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 225, 20 June 1944, Page 5
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