CITY OF CHANGTEH
ENTERED BY JAPANESE BUT GARRISON RESISTING IN STREETS. RAPID ADVANCE OF FRESH CHINESE TROOPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) CHUNGKING. November 30. The Japanese have entered Changteh, says a Chinese communique. They made an entry yesterday afternoon, through the east and north gates, under cover of an artillery and aerial bombardment. The Chinese garrison is continuing its resistance in hand to hand street fighting. Casualties are . high on both sides. The communique reports that fresh Chinese troops are rapidly closing in on the Japanese in the Changteh area and the Chinese planes are giving the •defenders effective assistance, sinking a number of enemy river craft and strafing enemy concentrations. General Stilwell’s communique announces that American fighter-bomb-ers, supporting the Chinese troops, attacked enemy positions west of the Salween River. Fighters attacked a Japanese aerodrome at Luang Pradang. Mitchells sank an enemy freighter in Tongkin Gulf.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1943, Page 4
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150CITY OF CHANGTEH Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1943, Page 4
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