'Tokyo, Jo Fifty Chinese planes were destroyed during the past' three weeks ending on Wednesday in Kwangsi province Japanese naval alr forees, aecord-{hg {0 a field dispatch reaching here lay.
'Three planes were shot down above Liuchow' in central Kwangal on December 22; two shot down above Kweilin, capital. of the province, on December 27; 22 shot down above Liuchow on' December. 30; 14 shot Jdown above Kweilin and nine others the ground destroyed on Wednesday, the dispatch said.
These air attacks, the dispatch said, had greatly hampered efforts of the Chinese to reorganize their alr force, Controtted Japanese Commander Killed Canton, Jan, 11.
Japanese forces were in "absolute control"" of the highway leading from Nanning to. the sea, Japanese. milltary authorities declared here today, denying recurrent, Chinese claims That the Japanese troops In southern Kwangsi had been isolated, Topancse forces, the Japanese off ors said, were "gradually pushing tack mixed troops of the Chinese 18ist_and. 198th Divisions from the heights south-west of Wutsunhu, 20 Kilometres southwest of Nanning.
attack "against these Chinese Positions was launched on Monday, they slated.
In a surprise attack, also on Monday, Japanese Woops' patrolling the highway between" Yamehow Kwanglung and Nanning had put to light 1,000 Chinese troops sighted in the neighbourhood of Chunglung, 36 Kilometres south of Nanning, they added, 'A toward of $500,000 has been offer ed by Gen, Pal Chung-hsi, Kwangsi warlord, to the Kwanglung and Kewangsl troops succeeding in "wiping onl the Japanese forces from the Yamehow-Nanning area, the Hong-ong "South China Morning Post" ro-ported ast Thursday, A similar report appeared in the Kweilin "Hua Chino "Jih Pao" on Wednesday. Domei.
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