Chiang Kai-shek’s Legions Assaulting Nanchang
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) CHUNGKING, Aug. 81. The Chinese High Command that Chinese legions were storming the suburbs of Nanchang, the main Japanese oase in the Kiangsl Province.
General Stilwell in a communique statuthat American bombers x*aided Myickyinu (Burma) and started three large fires in the city. They scored direct hits on thw aerodrome and dispersal areas and dropped anti-peißonnel bombs on the runwaj and barracks. None of the attacking planes or personnel was lost. This raid is additional to those report ed from American Heauquarters at New .uelhi wherein. American and R.A.i’. fighters and meuium bombers biasteu *w.yitkyina on the two previous days, ruin ing extensive aerodrome repairs made D* the Japanese after earlier raids.
The most disastrous flood for a cen lury has inundated 60,000 square miles o* China. Twenty-one towns in Japaneseheld Northern Anhwei Province arc flooded and 3000 houses have collapsed. The floods are severely crippling Japan-ese-controlled rail traffic to Tientsin. Millions of Chinese are homeless ana many are dying oi starvation and disease.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 208, 1 September 1942, Page 5
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