WAR NEWS

Evening Star, Issue 24293, 7 September 1942, Page 4

WAR NEWS

HOSTILITIES IN CHINA

AMERICAN BDMBERS ACTIVE (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 8 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 5. A communiqe issued from General J. Stilwell’s headquarters in China states that American bombers have carried out widespread attacks on Japanese communications in the provinces of Hunan, Hupo, and Kiangsi. Early on Monday the Americans attacked 25 heavy barges laden with troops and material near Ymchaw. Heavy casualties wore inflicted, and a number of barges were sunk, while seven Japanese steamers were sunk and another damaged. Two trains were also heavily damaged. Direct hits were scored on the Japanese headquarters and warehouses at Nanchang. CHINESE ADVANCE'CONTINUES (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. C. A Chungking communique states that Chinese troops advancing northwards of Chekiang province have reached the outskirts of Tungyang. They also continue to attack Kinhwa and Lanchi with increasing vigour. It is also reported from Chungking that American fighters and Chinese flak in a three-hours’ air battle shot down nine of 41 Japanese raiders over Hengyang Dinging in the Hunan province. CHINESE ARMyTuGCESSES (Rec, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. A Chungking communique states: Severe fighting continues on the outskirts of Kinhwa and near Lanchi, with the Chinese steadily gaining the upper hand. Enemy troops in both cities have been reinforced repeatedly, but have failed to break the Chinese cordon, and have suffered heavy casualties. The Chines© captured a point south of the railway town of Tungyang, 70 miles south of Hangchow. The enemy troops fled, leaving many killed and wounded. The Central News Agency reports that 21,000 young Chinese men and women were massacred by the retreating Japanese in Chekiang andi Kiangsi provinces. Cities in the two provinces are heaped with corpses. The Japanese also burned cities and villages, leaving hundreds of thousands of homeless along the Hangchow-Nanchang railway. The Government is hastening relief to the' area. CAUGHT UNPREPARED RUSSIAN RAID ON BUDAPEST (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. Russian bombers in the raid on Budapest on the night of September 4 extensively damaged military and industrial targets, set fire to a railway bridge across the Danube, and hit machine tool works and other factories in the north-east and central areas. Budapest was caught unprepared. Lights were blazing.

GERMAN TENNIS STAR WOUNDED (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) ■;. new york, sept. 6. .Walter , Rate, captain. , of. the last Davis Cup team,’said he was reliably informed that von Cramm was recently wounded in action and had lost both his feet. SMALL RAID OVER ENGLAND TWO BOMBERS DESTROYED (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. noon.) RUGBY, Sept. 6. This morning enemy aircraft dropped • bombs at a place on the south-east coast of England, causing damage but no casualties. Later two enemy bombers flew along the north-east coast of England and were destroyed by British fighters. One of these aircraft dropped its bombs harmlessly at a point near the coast. MAISKY'S EXHORTATION BOMB GERMANY DAY AND NIGHT (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. noon.) RTJpBY, Sept. 6. M. Maisky, in a speech in London, said Russian losses averaged 6,000 to 7,000 daily. “ Bomb Germany by day and by night, and bomb Nazi Germany in the west, east, north, and south,” he urged. “ I hope that before long British and Soviet airmen will meet in the air over Germany, fighting the common battle against the common enemy.” U-BOAT VICTIMS WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. The Venezuelan naval authorities, according to a message from Caracas, reported that the British schooner Gold B was torpedoed near the Gulf of Maracaibo. The newspaper ‘ Ultimas Noticias 1 said that nearly all the crew and 65 passengers were landed' at Puerto Cabello. The Navy Department has revealed the torpedoing of a small Latvian ship in the Caribbean Sea in August. Twenty-four members of'the crew were drowned when the vessel sank a minute after the explosion. Fourteen survivors were landed at a Gulf coast port. A U-boat shelled and sank a threemasted American- schooner in the Atlantic recently. The vessel left the West Indies with a cargo of molasses several weeks ago. Eleven days out a submarine halted the vessel. _ The crew of seven abandoned the ship in two dorys. Five days later they were nicked up by a merchantman and were later transferred to a British warship. TWO HUNDRED VICTORIES FIGHTER SQUADRON'S RECORD (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, September 6. The fighter squadron in Egypt has now scored its two hundredth confirmed victory. All were gained in the Middle East, some in Greece and Crete, but mainly over the desert. The' squadron has been fighting in the Middle East since the first campaign against the Italians. Its commanding officers have included some of tho most famous of all the desert fighter pilots. The two hundredth victim was a Messorschmitt which was destroyed in the battle area by Flightlieutenant L. Wade, an American, who volunteered to serve in the R.A.F. bc'fore liis own country entered the war. This made his personal score 12.