The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-13
FIGHTS ON THREE
 OTHER WAR FRONTS

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 recaptured Futou Island were re-
 cruited rom various Chinese bases
 in Fukien province and sent against
 the island in barges in what was
 described as the first landing opera
 ton made by the Chinese during the
 war. The captured large quantities
 pf supplies abandoned by the enemy.
 Local warfare is continuing in
 northern Kiangsi province in the
 area of Kweiki, Shangjao and Lin
 chwan with no material change in
 the situation, the communique said.
 Planes Being Supplied
 Chungking, July 13.-(UP)-Com-
 munications Minister Chang Kia-
 Ngau announced today that air
 planes now are bringing into China
 traffic equal to that formerly brought
 in over the Burma road.
 It is expected, he added, that the
 capacity of air transportation will
 be increased further.
 Change made his statement to
 the Kuomintang, the government
 political party, at memorial meet
 ing.
 He said that China, in addition
 to offsetting the loss of the Burma
 road by the Japanese offensive in
 Burma, had succeeded in replacing
 gasoline with coal gas and charcoal for most of the motor trucks in the
 Interior.
 Dead Pilot In Plane
 Somewhere in Australia, July 13-- ] .(UP)-The only allied bomber lost
 during the Independence Day blast
 ing of Lac, New Guinea, was
 brought down by a Japanese Navy ! plane, with a dead pilot, Lieut.. Eugene Grauer of Miami, Fla, said . today.
 Grauer was the navigating flight
 leader. During the combat, in a bomber piloted by Lieut.. Walter Krell of (Chateu Lafayette) Green
 Wich, Conn, he manned the navi- gators observation dome and di- rected the bomber's firepower. Thus, he could see what went on.
 'Erell led the formation which
 unloaded its bombs on Lac and ,~Started fires" he said. Then the
 Zeros attacked. One turned in above 7 us, and our turret gunner, Sgt. Pat < Norton (of Hartford, Ill), poured : about 100 rounds. into the zero's v left wing and cockpit.
 z 1.-The Zero appeared to jerk down. 7 ward, while the pilot jerked upward. Z Tho Zero careened craZily and saw ' the pilot slumped over the controls. ' That Zero would have crashed into < us, If Krell hadn't speedily banked, ss avoiding the crashing fighter At ' that, 1t swept a few feet under our ' belly with the wing falling apart. z Then the Zero swered upwards. z It seemed to go straight toward the V sky, hung there a moment, then s plunged downward in a steep spin. z T yelled a warning over the in- z ner-command phone, but I guess the x last bomber didn't see the plung- v ing Zero or didn't have time to < dodge.I saw the Zero plunge straight ' into the bomber's fuselage, cutting x clean through the tail. The Zero V was smashed into pieces that looked < like sharpnel spray scattering to- ' ward the ground.
 z "The bomber kept on few min ' utes, then went down toward the \ sea in tail spin. I was too busy ( after that to observe what hap ' pened.'
 z It was believed that some mem 2 berS of the bombers crew had v parachusted into the sea. ' British Planes Active z London, July 13-(UP)-The RAF Ia attacked German airfields near Ab- w beyille, France, last night, but no lM raids comparable to the blasting of \ submarine building plants at Danzig Y and Flensburg Saturday afternoon
 apparently were made.
 X The DanZig raid represented a \ t,750 mile round trip haul for the z pig heavily loaded Lancaster bonn : oers. While they were carrying out their missions there another force ' dropped delayed action bombs on Inc submarine yards at Flensburg, 7 setting fire to the slipways Some < of the planes were only 50 feet s above their targets in the Flems- \ burg attack.
 < Danzig, which had not been raid < sd since Dec. 10, 1940, was hit by 2 bombs when the planes came in < at 5000 feet in the late afternoon. \ The weather was bad-some planes were forced to turn back-but the < flyers were confident they damaged l the submarine yards. The Germans, apparently feeling Danzig was out of reach of the RAF, had been ex- banding the submarine yards there. "A formidable force, certainly one pig enough to do heavy damage ] got there" the air ministry said. The British lost three planes, which was considered a low per- :entage in view of the difficulties { of the long flight.
 (The Germans news agency DINE Eaid many children were killed when a Danzig hospital was hit by a bomb, and added that high explos- ives and incendiaries damaged build tngs in the city).