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PAGE 3 THE SUN, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1945 luTZLER BFQTHERS MAN TAKEN BY CHINESE Offensive Against Corridor JAPS ATTACK IN PHILIPPINES Counterblows On Luzon And Mindanao Repulsed defense system of pillboxes and machine-gun nests 2,000 yards northeast of Mintal. This brought them to the Bancal Mintal road, where they found an enemy minefield sowed with aerial bombs and covered by. mountain artillery pieces. The minefield was cleared and the infanirymen con tinued their advance. The first important Japanese line of resistance on Mindanao since the capture of the Syre north-south highway was encountered by the 31st Division, which beat off two night counterattacks Monday night.

upport, were liquidating Japanese emnants in the Santa Fe sector nd in two areas of Mindanao. Formosa took a 520-ton bombing Tuesday and Wednesday. Escorted jberators concentrated on the Kee-ung and Takao waterfront areas. A medium cargo vessel was sunk it Shanghai and seven coastal ships vere destroyed in the Hong Kong irea as heavy bombers patroled the China Sea. Break Interlocking Defense The 24th Division doughboys in the Davao sector of Mindanao drove through a tight interlocking Now 43 Miles From Liuchow Manila Friday, June 1 (P) Chungking, May 31 (Chinese troops were reported tonight to have captured the South China rail Japanese forces have attempted widespread counterattacks against Filipino guerrillas and American infantrymen on Luzon and Min town of Ishan.

43 miles west of the former United States airbase city danao as well as against Australians Good Morning! of Liuchow, as they dug deeper into the narrowing corridor leading into on New Guinea, but a headquarters spokesman said today they were Howard and Lexington Street "almost uniformly French Indo-China where thousands of Japanese are isolated. The Chinese high command had While the actions were small in scale, with the Japanese attacking not confirmed the capture of Ishan, in company strength or less, they but the Chinese troops yesterday were persistent and ferocious. had fought into its outskirts in their Attempt River Crossing On northern Luzon guerrillas re converging drive on Liuchow, the enemy's most important road hub in Kwangsi province. Other Chinese pulsed several hundred Japanese troops attempting to cross to the 1 EKIILESS columns were reported 55 miles southwest and 40 miles northwest west bank of the Cagayan River on rafts between Aparri and Tugue' garao. The guerrillas previously had pushed the enemy out of the rugged mountain country onto the east bank of the.

river, and thus maintained control over the area they had fought to JAP KILLED ON OKINAWA This Japanese soldier was one of several killed in a suicide attack when they landed on Okinawa by plane. In the background can be seen a wing tip of the wrecked plane, being viewed by a group of Yank soldiers. (Signal Corps photo.) it ii? i 1 1 TOKVOB YAMS ADVANCING INTO OKINAWA LINE of Liuchow. swept by fires apparently set by the retreating enemy. Certair.

Of Withdrawal Lieut. Ccn. Albert C. Wede-meyer. United States Army commander in China, declared the Japanese were without question withdrawing from the transcontinental land corridor connecting enemy forces in China with perhaps Japanese in Indo-China, Thailand, Malaya and Burma.

At a point near the Indo-China frontier the corridor is now only about 100 miles wide. Wedemeyer said he was optimistic about the military future in China," with Allied supply improving in contrast to the enemy's deteriorating position. He said China was not yet ready for a grand counteroffensive but "we are around the corner psychologically." Battling eastward through Kwangsi province on an irregular 250-mile front the Chinese were attending their gains above and below Ishan. 40 Miles From Border At the lower end of this front they had reached the vicinity of At the southern entrance way to the Cagayan valley, where the last major Japanese force now is being compressed by the 25th and 32d divisions, the Yanks cleaned out 32 Japanese-infested cave positions 1 mile northeast of Santa Fe. On Sunday and Monday nights the Americans fought off a series of banzai charges in hand-to-hand clashes.

Patrols In Valley Advance American patrols were reported in frontline dispatches to be already in the Cagayan valley, last major enemy strong point in the Philippines. On central Luzon, the 38th Division followed up its conquest of the Wawa dam by driving the enemy CASVAL" Of Bembery Rayon Sheer Soft, cool dress of triple sheer Bern-berg rayon. Tailored in comfortable low neck style that buttons down the front. brown, gray and coral prints. Sizes 12 to 18.

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Second floor. (Continued from Page 1) hill yesterday 500 yards east of into the rugged Sierra Madre Moun Chan village and another elevation 300 yards northeast of Chan. The 7th forms. the' other large arm of tains to the south and east. Americans fought their way up near the slopes of Mount Lamita and Mount Ayaas, about a mile east of the dam.

The Japanese have formed a new strong point for the broken Shimbu line atop neighboring Mount Purro. Formosa Bombed Again A spokesman said Maj. Gen. William C. Chase's veteran outfit was now within 1 mile of this objective.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique today said troops on northern Luzon, with strong air the pincers on Shun. Chan is 1V2 miles south of Shuri. The strongest resistance along the line was met by the 7th in driving toward Kamizato town, little over a mile south' of Chan. For the first time in several days, the communique reported a complete absence of Japanese suicide plane attacks on American" ships, due to heavy rains and electrical storms.

Despite the adverse weather, escort carrier planes of the United States Pacific Fleet got in some blows on enemy airfields, bar "ANCHBN 7 CHirta i CHONGON) -1 lNPO-CHMA UL Chin SSr 1UTZLER BFQTHERS 6 racks and installations in the Sakishima group of islands, southernmost of the Ryukyus. Strike Out From Shuri With 1st Marine Division, Oki nawa, May 31 Marines launched out from Shuri castle today in an attack on Japanese near Shuri town. The Leatherneck fighters ware supplied by a line of NARROWING THE CORRIDOR Chinese forces arc reported to have captured the city of Ishan, important communications center in. South China, in their drive to take the former American airbase city of Liuchow, 43 miles to the east. Arrows locate other Chinese attacks against the Japanese land corridor bisecting China from north to south.

Black areas are Jap-held. strong-backed, mud-treading fellow Marines. The 1st Regiment, com 1 ARMSU-PROOF CHEST, 8.95 manded by Col. Arthur Macon, of Washington, P.C., started the northwestward assault. Mason regiment took oyer from the 5th Louis Azrael Reports on Maryland Troops and War in Europe FRIDAYS 7:45 P.M.

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Col. Richard P. Ross, of Frederick, sent patrols blows to the Japanese. Those al south of Shuri castle and one spotted a Japanese force moving south. Lieut.

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Gen. James H. Doolittle, who struck the first air blow against Tokyo, will have B-29 Superfortresses as well as smaller planes in his 8th Air Force when he hurls it against the Japanese, it was announced today. Doolittle, whose carrier-based attack on the Nipponese capital three years ago thrilled the nation, now has more than 3,000 Flying Fortresses, Liberators and fighter planes in the force which played such a part in toppling Germany. Announced By Arnold "American power will see to it Suilo, approximately 40 miles from the Indo-China border, and 60 miles southwest of Yungning, (Nanning).

Chinese troops by Monday had completed the mopping of enemy remnants on the south bank of the Siang River opposite Yungning, a stronghold -which Wedemeyer said the Japanese destroyed before retreating and carrying with them all able-bodied Chinese. In the drive northwest of Yungning one Chinese column had bypassed Pinyang and reached the area of Chienkiang, 55 miles southwest of Liuchow. One column was attacking Pinyang itself, the high command said. Northeast of Ishan, on the Kwangsi-Kweiyang Railway, the Japanese were reported withdrawing from a number of localities, including Chongon, 40 miles north-vest of Liuchow. A few prisoners were taken in clashes," Wedemeyer said.

"They were a discouraged group "ho feel Japan has lost the war. say that. Some are cognizant th3 terrific damage caused by attacks on their homeland." To the northeast of the Kwangsi -iillefront other Chinese troops U.ncking along China's east coast ad penetrated beyond captured Illnsteh. 45 miles north of Foo- how, to the southern bank of the Iliao tiver, after killing and wounding more than 200 Japanese. Only twelve Japanese prisoners were taken as the enemy retreated toward Siapu, 75 miles northeast of Toochow and where an enemy naval force landed last week.

The American chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek promised increased aerial support to the Chinese ground forces and the Chinese announced that Chinese planes shot down ten enemy craft Wednesday in combat over Nanking. This was the biggest bag ever claimed by that airforce in one engagement. Censure Motion Fails In Australian House Canberra, Australia, May 31 (JP). A motion of censure against the Australian Government, presented by Opposition Leader Robert Gordon Menzies. was defeated in the House of Representatives by 38 votes to 15 tonight.

The Country party, one of the opposition groups, supported the censure motion. Menzies, former Prime Minister, charged the Government with: Failure to deal adequately with industrial lawlessness. Failure to adopt an effective housing policy. With an attack upon responsible authority of Parliament by refusing to permit discussion of the San Francisco conference. Stifling debate on important legislative proposals.

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