MANY ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 4

MANY ATTACKS

MADE BY AMERICAN AIRCRAFT ON JAPANESE IN CHINA & ELSEWHERE. RIVER CRAFT & LOCOMOTIVES DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) CHUNGKING, December 30. Widespread activity is reported by General Stilwell’s communique which says: “Our planes attacked Japanese installations and shipping in French Indo China and the Tungting Lake area, without loss. We sank a 1,200 ton river boat near Hwajung, destroyed two locomotives near Yochow, sank a 200 foot cargo vessel and set fire to two others. Mitchells sank a 200 foot armed passenger ship and a 150 foot cargo ship and also badly daamged another cargo ship and two river barges on the Yangtse, between Wuhu and Chinchow. Our fighters attacked Hsipaw, Mansak and Hopong in Central Burma, inflicting heavy damage on railway yards, rolling stock and a power plant. Thirty-six Japanese planes raided a forward American base in China. We destroyed four Zeros, probably destroyed five more and damaged two others. We lost one plane, shot down, and another was destroyed on the ground.”