Sunday, April 25, 2010

Current Events April 25, 1942: Chinese Stem Japanese in Burma; R. A. F. Bombs Smash Nazis:


Chinese Stem Japs in Burma
R. A. F. BOMBS SMASH NAZIS
The Bakersfield Californian
BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1942


British and
Nazi Swap
Punches
Russians Launch Cossack Raids on Germans
LONDON, April 25. (A. P.)—The
air ministry announced tonight
that 15 R. A. F. fighters and one
bomber were missing and eight
Germans fighters destroyed during
British daylight attacks over
northern Franco today.
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
GERMANY'S greatest Heinkcl
aircraft works at Roslock
came under explosive
assault by R. A. F. bombers
last night for the second night
in a row, the London air ministry
announced today, and
British sources pictured, the
Baltic city as virtually left In ruins.

Keep Japs From Mandalay Base
Chinese Under Stillwell Block Thrust
by Tanks, Take Heavy Toll of Invaders
A MARKED Improvement In the
position of the allies' Chinese held
left flank In Burma was reported
today by Chinese headquarters,
which announced that troops
under tho command of Lieutenant
General Joseph W. Stillwell had
checked a tank-led enemy thrust
within 100 miles of the vital allied
supply base at Mandalay.
Tho Chinese took a heavy toll in
casualties and captured considerable
booty In carrying out their counteroffensive
about six miles east of
Taungy, in the mountainous Shan
states of eastern Burma.
In central and western Burma, according
to Chungking, tho parallel
enemy drives also appeared to have
been slowed up, for tho communique
labeled tho fighting there as indecisive.
Meanwhile, Bomb-jittery Japan
sent waves of planes to blast Chinese
air bases nearest to the island
empire.
A Tokyo broadcast said Japanese
naval and army bombers, successively
attacking the bases for the
past three days, destroyed planes
and hangars in western Chekiang
By Associated Press_

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