Evening star., 1942-05-25
Enemy Checked
Al Kinhwa With
Bloody Losses
Another Column Is Put
To Rout at Kienteh:
Toll Is 1000
BY the Associated Press.

nese Central News bulletin from
the Chekiang front said the
japanese launched a full-scale
offensive today in an attempt to
storm Kinhwa, capital of the sea-
board province, but were re-
pulsed with bloody losses. Re
ports said the heart of the town
had been heavily bombed.
Other dispatches said the de-
tenders had thrown back another
japanese column at Kienteh, inflict-
ing 1000 casualties and putting the
invaders to rout. Kienteh is % miles
north of Kinhwa and on the north
bank Of the Chientang River.
Sinteng, Al miles northeast Of
Kienteh and only about 10 miles
from Fuyang, is one of the bases
from which the Japanese started
their Chekiang offensive. 1t was
recaptured by the Chinese three
days ago, a high command COM
munique said.
Attack in Several Directions.
Along the Chekiang border with
Kiangsu Province TO the north, the
communique added, Chinese mobile
forces were attacking in several di-
rections.
Kinhwa was said by the COM
munique to still be in Chinese
hands.
On the southwestern front in
Yunnan Province, it added, the Chi
nese had continued successes on
the western side of the Salween
River, recapturing points east of
Tengyueh and continuing attacks
in the mountains south of that
point.
(Tokio newspapers said large
sections of the town we're in
fiamesO
Kienteh represented the left
flank of the Chinese, whose right
wing had been driven out of the
arc of Pukiang, Yiwu and Tung-
yang, Is to IS miles northeast and
east of Kinhwa.
Slash at Conveys.
Meanwhile, large sections of Chi
nese troops behind the Japanese
lines began cutting and slashing at
the enemys supply and troop con-
voys in large-scale guerrilla opera
tions.
The japanese were asserted to
be throwing 100000 men into the
offensive.
japanese dispatches to Toxic from
Chekiang said the Chinese 10th
Army had begun full retreat along
the Clicking Railway after
the japanese had captured Tung-
yang the the east of Kinhwa and
started an encircling movement to-
ward Wuyi, Is miles to the southeast
of the provincial seat.
japanese army bombers we're
smashing the Chinese positions in
the path of the offensive. it was de-
clared in Toxic radio broadcasts.
japanese bombers raided the heart
of the important Burma road city
of Paoshan and other points in
y
Paoshan Bombed.
Chinese dispatches said eight
bombers escorted by six fighters
bombed Paoshan. The results of the
raids there and in other Yunnan
points were not stated in the reports.
The Flying Tigers of the American
Volunteer Group yesterday bombed
Japanese positions and returned to
their base without loss.
With China pressed from east and
west, Chinese newspapers continued
to appeal to the United Nations to
rush aid Immediately, declaring this
nation not only was fighting its own
battle but that of the Allies as well.
Twelve Chinese divisions were
shattered in the Chekiang opera
tions beginning May Is, the Toxic
newspaper ASahi declared in a dis
patch from the Chekiang battle
area, and all communications be-
tween Chungking and the coast
have been severed.
Nichi Nichi said the operation was
valuable complement to the fight
! ing in Yunnan Province in the
southwest.
by these new attacks from west
and east Japan is shattering Anglo
American dreams of China
counteroffensive," the paper said.