CHINESE SUCCESS
IN NORTHERN ANHWEI NEW HIGHWAY BEING BUILT. TO REPLACE BURMA ROAD IF NECESSARY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) CHUNGKING, February 13. A communique states that the Chinese recaptured Kwoyang, in northern Anhwei, within 24 hours of its occupation by the Japanese, who, having lost 500 killed and wounded, are now in full retreat. The United Press correspondent at Kunming says that hundreds of thousands of coolies, women and children, are working with their bare hands, building a new highway into China in order to maintain the influx of supplies if the Burma Road is cut. The completion of the new road is expected very soon, while the Government is also building and improving other vital roads. The width of the KunmingChungking road was recently doubled, thus permitting its use by huge army trucks and artillery. A Washington message states that President Roosevelt has signed an Appropriation Act providing 500 million dollars aid for China. •>
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1942, Page 4
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