HEAVY BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 4

HEAVY BLOWS

STRUCK BY GUERILLAS IN CHINA ALONG EASTERN SEABOARD. SUCCESSFUL LARGE-SCALE RAIDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) CHUNGKING, May 7. The Central News gives further details of the operations of large forces of Chinese guerillas who have opened a second front in China. The guerillas have inflicted heavy casualties and damage on the skeleton Japanese garrisons holding fifteen cities between Shanghai and Hong Kong. These large-scale attacks are regarded as part of the United Nations strategy in the Far East to offset the Japanese invasion of Southern Yunnan. One guerilla force of about two thousand entered Ningpo and stormed the Japanese Headquarters, killing scores of Japanese. The same force destroyed thirteen bridges between Ningpo and the Fenghua airfields. At Fenghua a bus station was burned, a Japanese gendarmerie headquarters was entered and many Japanese were killed. At Wuhu a power plant was destroyed and a railroad station burned. At Hukow a Japanese naval station was destroyed and enemy ware- . houses were burned.