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EVACUATED ISV JAPANESE IN EAST CHINA AMERICAN AIR ATTACK GN BURMA ROAD. EIGHT ENEMY FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright I (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Otcober 21). “The grin of the Japanese on East China is weakening; they are evacuating Kwangteh, an important highway town 85 miles south-east of Nanking, declared a Chinese Army spokesman, Major-General Tsieng. He added that the situation on the Salween front was unchanged. General Stilwell’s communique announces that American heavy bombers successfully attacked Bungling, on the Burma Road. Of eight Zeros which intercepted, three were shot down. Later an additional eight Zeros attacked, and of these five were shot down and two others were probably destroyed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1943, Page 4
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116HIGHWAY TOWN Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1943, Page 4
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