YUNNAN FIGHTING
MUCH ROAD & RAILWAY DEMOLITION CARRIED OUT BY JAPANESE. HEAVY RAINS SETTING IN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) CHUNGKING, May 20. Chinese demolition squads, operating over a 300 mile area in Lower Yunnan Province, blocked further Japanese thrusts by littering the invasion route with dynamited bridges railroads and highways. Another ally for the Chinese has arrived in the form ot heavy rains, which are believed to herald the beginning of the monsoon season. JAPANESE WARNING GIVEN TO RUSSIA. AGAINST SUPPLYING CHINA. LONDON, May 19. Simultaneous with the launching of the Japanese attacks on China from two directions, the Berlin radio quotes the Japanese Foreign Office as ing, “If Russia supplies China Wltl war materials, Japan will regard it as a cause of war.” ________
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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