Evening star., 1945-07-01
Chinese Forces Reach
lndo-China andRe Reiake
U. 5. Base al LiuchoW
BY the Associated Press.

hW Sst~n
BY the Associated Press
CHUNGKING, June 30.-Chi-
nese troops have rewon for the
United States 14th Air Force the
burning South China airbase city
of Liuchow and are pounding up
China's eastern invasion" coast
within las miles of Shanghai,
the Chinese high command said
tonight.
Capturing three other Japanese
strongholds in China, Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-shek's soldiers re-
occupied Linhai, on the China
coat and reached the French In
do-China frontier at Chungchingfu
and Malungschai.
Chinese patrols presumably
pushed across the frontier into In
do-China from Chungchingfu and
Malungchai, recaptured for the
second time in -FOUR weeks. Both
towns were described as "on the
frontier" and Chinese Army
spokesman said that the recapture
Of Chungchingfu should not be in
terpreted as the beginning of an in
vasion of Indo-C China.
Maps Don't Show Towns.
tNeither Chungchingfu nor
Malungchai appears on avail
able maps in Chungking or New
York. Maps do show in this area
the town of Trung Khanh Blu,
4 miles inside Indo- China and
10 miles northeast Of Caobang.
Should Trung Khanh Blu be
Chungchingfu the Chinese would
be l3l miles northeast of Hanoi)
New Chinese successes along the
east coast within 81 miles of tenn
ing industrial Hangchow paved the
way for any possible Allied landings.
The old, walled city of Liuchow
In Kwangsi Province 400 miles
southeast of Chungking was the
third United States 14th Air Force
base recaptured by the Chinese.
Yumgning (Nanning) in Kwangsi
and Suichwan in Kiangsi Province
previously had been retaken. Indi-
cations were that Kweilin, 80 miles
northeast of Liuchow, would be the
fourth.
Held Since November.
Liuchow had been held by the
japanese since last November IL.
The city is the largest and most vital
communications center in rugged
South Central China.
The Chinese began their assault
on Liuchow at the end of May.
inching forward in bitter battles
that now have given them full con-
troll of the Kwangsi- -Kweichow
railroad, the first held
line to revert entirely to the Chi
neSe.
The city fell at midnight last
night, the Chinese command said.
After Luchows capture, Chinese
quarters predicted the JapaneseI
would further contract their posi-
tions on the Liuchow- Hengyang
railroad to a point 100 miles south
west of Hengyang and give upI
Kweilin, which Chinese units were
approaching from only 10 miles |
away.
Chinese forces In the past two |
months also have reoccupied the
east coast treaty ports of Foochow
and Wenchow.
Linhai Seized.
Continuing their pursuit Of jap
anese forces withdrawing along the
coast north of Wenchow, the Chi
neses seized Linhai CTaichow) on
Taichow Bay 165 miles south of
Shanghai. and were advancing on
Tienai, 20 miles north.
The Chinese were sweeping down
from rugged hills into the great
industrial plains of Hangchow Bay,
threatening imminent capture of
Tientat, which is las miles below
Shanghai and 81 miles southeast of
Hangchow City. 1t also is only 60
miles southwest of industrial Ningh-
sien (Ningpo).
Elsewhere in China, the Japanese
based in Nankang, southwest of
the former American air base of
Kanhsien in Kiahgsi Province, drove
northward Wednesday and pushed
beyond Tangkiang, IL miles west
of Kanhsien.
Bitter fighting was reported by
the Chinese in this area 230 miles
north of Hong Kong. The Japanese
drive appeared to be part of an
enemy plan to establish an inner
defense line from Kanhsien north
to the Yangtze River to bolster the
east flank of the north-south enemy
corridor from Hankow to Hong
Kong.
For the first time In 80 days,
American flyers of the l4th Air
Force destroyed Japanese plane in
the air. The Japanese plane was
encountered over the southeast air.