Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                East Dummy tank Doest fool yanks r if lev i f i i a Marine a chinese hacking doggedly into the japs strategic Overland have to within ten Miles of formerly the biggest and Vance base of the 14fh in a 15mile push through enemy de a three pronged drive 90 Miles southward threatens to isolate thousands of enemy troops holding out in capture of which was As the spelling chinese offensive gathered a chinese army spokesman said that proximately japanese troops have been isolated in Southeast he added that Weilin and whose nothern suburbs already been will probably fall but while chinese troops menace these important bastions in Kwang is the japs Are attacking violently along a 200mile front controlling Trade routes to South East West of the japs have recaptured motive of counter thrust at Ishan is not Clear unless to gain a cover for with most Jap forces around Luchow Are believed to have withdrawn Northeast through Weilin toward leaving Small units to fight suicide rear guard Clearing the coastline the accelerated which pro Mises to Clear an entire 300 Miles of the Cana coast Between Foo Chow and hang How Conti chinese troops captured the River port of swept to with in 14 Miles of the old walled port of other forces raced another 35 Miles and seized Ping Only 20 Miles below the great port of chinese forces outings chalked up 105 Miles of liberated coast line above liberated this about a year after Japan seized the Overland corridor and China reached her lowest chinese troops were Clearing Jap forces from South China and were pursuing enemy units from Cap tured Nanning across the indo China Frontier into isolated South East As resistance stiffened the the enemy counter new Syria clash Syria fighting broke out again this week when syrians and native under French thirty were in the Arab league demanded that French troops in Syria and Lebanon be evacuated in asserting that the French government respond Lor murder and As in the Weilin base coast gains attacked strongly from the Cao bang area of Indochina and Dis lodged the chinese from Chuff e chief of the announced that new air Fields will be installed in China for the coming he declared that the 14th would take every advantage of the Jap withdrawal into Southeast China to put new Fields into operation the revitalized chinese air equipped with planes american train de Are blasting targets in Jap occupied raids were made last week on Supply stores communications in Kwang Hunan and Shansi Tokyo reported that approximately 20 chinese divisions have been completely mechanized with in Southern gurkha troops have routed the japs from their defense line along the Toun goo Road to Thailand and made further gains despite Jap artillery fire and increasing As the japs withdrew from prepared positions on the vital b24 liberators of the Eastern air command blasted Jap troops concentrations East of the sitting scoring a number of British troops took the Village of 11 Miles East of the main Road joining prime and after a fierce heavy fighting was also reported in the pegu the too made a sub Stantial Advance toward advancing 35 Miles along the thai japs give dictatorial Power Tokyo the Suzuki govern ment of Japan has obtained from the diet the japanese Congress virtually absolute Power to Rule the Empire by decree in its Grav est the Doines news Agency reports that the House of with Little put the diet on a rub Ber stamp basis with measures limited to the duration of the it authorizes the new government to Issue orders in the event of urgent thereby affect ing the whole Field of the country War Bond drive hears goal Washington seventy two percent of the seventh War loan now its fifth has been reached with individual sales totalling of the the drive ends on june aussies drive continued from Page i Ralian and bombers and fighters of the Royal australian and 13th the Landing followed Allied seizure of 600 Miles away by sea on the opposite Side of Borneo and found the japs unprepared to offer effective the aussies and dutch began the Tarakan Campaign some months the captured town of Labuan has an while Brunei facilities now give the allies an almost completely landlocked Anchorage within 800 Miles of sin besides the area is Rich in lumber and in the the yanks were preparing for what is expected to be the last major Batty in of the the push into the Broad Bagayan Valley of North Eastern the japs now hold the Rich which runs North Ward about 50 Miles from the pre sent Forward american positions to wooden replica of a tank which the japs St Kerf but failed t0 fool american own out on Oki the Philippines Northern most the 3th Buek Eye is Only 12 Miles from the Southern tip of the Valley after capturing the important Road Junction of Stilwell in Philippines during the last week the americans counted enemy with 5 prisoners the weeks american casualties Are 17u killed and 855 a ratio of less than one to on Mindanao eighth army troops sealed off Davao Gulf and the straightened their lines North and West of captured Davao severing the remain ing japs in the Southeast Corner of this second largest philippine is filipino officers report eco they had captured shave haired Jap women armed with Spears and other makeshift weapons fighting alongside their men in the Des Perate resistance which preceded the fall of Macarthur Headquarters announced that recently ground forces Stilwell made a frontline visit to an artillery Post in Northern Luzon and that the Jap artillery raked the Post shortly after he los Angeles at least three japanese balloon bombs have fallen harmlessly in Southern califor Nia in recent reported the ninth service 20th super forts add new punch to air Blitz on Japan As fleets of b29s from 20th bomber command bases in India United with 21st squadrons in the the Aerial blows against the japanese Homeland began to be administered As if by a Hydraulic Hammer four consecutive Days of attacks last week left the main land ranging from super forts to Mustangs and Navy car struck again and again hurling High explosives into air Craft rail Yards and other military targets in five separate sundays strike was made by 250 to 300 b29s on five factory targets in the already ravaged Tokyo Yokohama recon photos later showed that the Hitachi engineering works and adjacent rail Yards at Fukagawa alone were struck by 820 the giant which by Tokyo admission have left one of every 18 japanese pin pointed aircraft factories in three Small Jap cities while Nippon Premier was telling an emergency parliament session that super forts have already caused considerable damage to the empires War in the precision attacks were a de parture from the mass fire raids in May according to ene my destroyed half a million Homes in Yokohama and Premier Suzuki re ported much headway is being made in digging both Industry and Homes adding their strength to the broods of bombers on Tinian is North of the from India made their flight mostly Over hostile territory without the loss of a this mass Transfer of the old 20th first to strike at considered one of the greatest Aerial migrations and set an outstanding safety record for the air one of the bes planned attacks of the Jap War came from Halsey third Fleet when Carrier planes thrust at the airfields of of the Home destroyed were 2x enemy planes on the ground and two in the All the american a jots returned safely but four were using fragmentation bombs the Carrier planes liberally sowed destruction on a planned systematic basis Seldom if Ever used before against any targets of this a correspondent so minute was the planning that each Pilot had a revetment assigned to him and in this fashion the attacking Blu Egray seagoing aircraft raked parked Jap bombed and strafed As they plummeted through Tackack Okinawa continued from Page 1 states will need a Force of half a million to Japan he warned that even after Tokyo Falls we still May have to fight a Long War against the japs in Manchuria and Oneman army kills 30 nips a Story of movie heroism on the Island concerns Clarence Craft of Ganta who a loosed a Oneman massacre and killed 30 japs to drive a wedge that his regimental commander said helped smash the Shuri de sense Craft made his single handed As Sault on a Hill when elements of the with were pinned Down by intense machine gun for ten Days japs from this Hill had held up two and two flanks of two divisions Coli int move until it was the one striped dough out went into action inns aug grenades into trenches and he straddled a pen ring fire from his Garand into then jumped in mowing Down the japs As Thev got to and sealed tile Cuve with a demolition Jap bodies three knee three about 80 rifles and ammunition littered the Hili when the Light was Craft profusely credited the covering fire from his buddies with making the fight All he told Cor respondents was Fin Damn Lucky to come out Roll out the barrel new Brewers produced record breaking barrels of Beer in 1944 Trieste cools off As Tito pulls out Anglo me rican and yugoslav agreement has put the lid on the troubled Trieste at least until a peace conference can Settle yugoslav forces of marshal Tito Are withdrawing leaving Anglo american forces in control of the railways and roads into Austria which they consider to mention is made in the agree ment of the austrian province which Tito claims Fin but from which he had withdrawn his forces after the Al lies applied a temporary military administration is provided for the disputed Verizzi Giulia area which includes the italian City of territory largely inhabited