JAPANESE DRIVES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1943, Page 3

JAPANESE DRIVES

AGAINST BURMA ROAD FIVE COLUMNS ON MOVE. DESPERATE CHINESE RESISTANCE IBv Telegraph—Press Association —Copj right) CHUNGKING. October 14. Reinforced Japanese, in five columns, have pushed northward along the Buima Road at the entrance to southwestern China, where the Chinese are resisting desperately. Most of the fighting appears to be on the west bank of the upper Salween River. A Chinese communique said that two new Japanese drives have won a position on the west shore of Lake Shuanhungchiao, from which the enemy shelled the Chinese positions on the opposite shore. Chinese counter-fire silenced the Japanese guns and caused heavy damage to the enemy. Extremely heavy fighting continues on the Siaofeng sector, and there have been heavy casualties on both sides. The Chinese recaptured Potien, but reinforced Japanese, supported by many bombers, forced the Chinese back to the south, where they are now engaging in bloody fighting. SCANTY AID ASSERTION BY CHINESE LEGATION. NEW YORK, October 15. The new secretary of the Chinese Legation in Stockholm,. Mr San Wang, asserted that scanty aid from the United Nations had prevented China from launching a full-scale offensive against the Japanese, says the Stockholm correspondent of the ‘New York Times.” Mr San Wang stated that 100 American planes had reached China, though the Chinese requested 500 last spring. SWEEP BY BOMBERS JAPANESE SHIPPING SUFFERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) CHUNGKING, October 15. General Stilwell’s communique announces that Mitchell bombers, sweeping the Chinese coast, sank a small Japanese freighter and raked another. They bombed gunboats and sampans. All the Mitchells returned.