STILL HITTING BACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 4

STILL HITTING BACK

CHINESE RE-ENTER KINHWA ONLY DRIVEN OUT BY GAS. SUCCESSES IN OTHER AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) CHUNGKING, May 31. A Chinese communique reports that Japanese troops yesterday landed on Yuhwan Island, off the Chekiang coast, and at Port Wenchow, where heavy fighting is in progress. Chinese forces, carrying out a surprise attack on Thursday night, penetrated the Japanese lines and re-en-tered Kinhwa; where they engaged the Japanese in hand-to-hand fighting and wiped out 700 of the enemy, but again withdrew on Friday because the Japanese used poison gas. Gas also forced the Chinese to evacuate Lanchi, after they had inflicted a thousand casualties on the Japanese. Several Japanese transports were sunk in the lower Fuchun River, north of Kinhwa, while Chinese forces, operating from the rear of the Chekiang front, halted river traffic below Tunglu. In Anhwei province, the Chinese attacked north of the Yangtse River, occupied strategic points and destroyed a railway northward of the river. They also captured an important railway station. American Volunteer Group airmen again effectively bombed Loakey, in Indo-China.

Seventeen Japanese planes raided Kweilin, the capital of Kwangsi Province and set fire to a refugee district.