North Chins, June 13.
Simultaneous drives from the east, south-east, south and west were Jiaunehed by a dozen Japanese columns fat dawn yesterday against 15,000 remnants of Chungking forees including parts of the Communist 8th Route Army and irregulars under the command of General Tsung Jen-chiung that had concentrated on the Hopel-Shantung-Honan border, it was revealed yesterday.
Four Japanese units have started moving from the east, three from the south-east, two from the south and three others from the west. The Chungking forces, according to latest front line dispatches, are virtually fesclssled. The fighting is "being: ezrried on in terrific heat, it was die Monday afternoon, it is claimed in oficial' Chinese circles.
Chinese fighters engaged the ralders above Pishan and Changshou, The bombers rained several hun-areds of bombs on the western suburbs of Chungking, wrecking a house in which an American highway expert, Mr. Andrew Bassi, was staying, and damaging a foreign hostel, In" this latter establishment, shrapnel pierced the wall, a bible, and a suilease in the room in which Post office official Mr, W. W. Ritchie was staying, There were few casualties as a result of the raid, since the major~ ity of bombs landed in open elds, No fires were slarted—Reuter,
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