EFFECTIVE BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1943, Page 3

EFFECTIVE BLOWS

STRUCK BY AMERICAN BOMBERS

IN BURMA AND CHINA.

MUCH DAMAGE TO ENEMY ORGANISATION.

(By Telegra ,n—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 31.

United States• bombers have been ranging far and wide over Central and Northern Burma during the past few days, in attacks ‘aimed at the ground organisation of the Japanese air lorce. Heavy damage is reported. Attention has also been paid to bridges and supply dumps. American aircraft have been active, too, in China. Every American plane got back from all these raids. A Chungking message .states that heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese when United States Mitchell bombers made a surprise attack on the Fort Bayard barracks on Kwangchowan Peninsula, says General Stilwell’s communique. Other Mitchells sank a medium freighter and destroyed a grounded Japanese plane. ■ Other fighters attacked and left burning warehouses at Yocjow, on the Hangkow-Canton railway, and factories 30 miles northward at Kienli. Liberator bombers dropped four tons on Aangshih, a major Japanese base on the Burma Road. Eight enemy planes bombed' an Allied aerodrome in south-west China, causing minor damage. FURTHER ATTACKS ON TARGETS IN CHINA SMELTING WORKS BLASTED 1 (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) CHUNGKING, October 31. American bombers dropped 40 tons of demolition bombs in blasting a large zinc smelting plant at Quangyen, near Haiphong, says General Stilwell’s communique. Fighters attacked a large steamer on the Yangtse River, near Kiukiang, and made a low-level attack against hangars and warehouses at the Kiukiang air base. All the American planes returned.