DEATH FROM WOUNDS
HERO OF THE BATTLE OF TOUNGOO. CHINESE GETTING AVAR SUPPLIES FROM RUSSIA. (Received his Day, 12.30 p.m.) CHUNGKING, July 17. The Chinese High Command announced the death from wounds of Major-General Tai Lai, Divisional Commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, and hero of the Battle of Toungoo, in which 5,000 Japanese were killed. Chungking is receiving war supplies from Russia over a 2,800-mile highway constructed mostly in the last five years. Mr Wong Wen-hao, Chinese Economics Minister, who has completed an inspection of the highway, said vital materials were moving to Chungking in modern trucks and carts and on thousands of camels. The western terminus of the highway is Tachang. on the border of China and Russian Turkestan, where it joins the Russian highway leading to Almeata. The road partly follows ancient trails over the mountains of Northern Szechwan and Southern Shensi.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1942, Page 4
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