Japs Retreat
In Confusion
Before Chinese
CHUNGKING, July 9 — (JP)—
The Chinese Command announced
that the Chinese forces had cap
tured Southguard Pass or Chen
nakwan on the border between
China and French Indo-China and
said the Japs were retreating in
confusion toward Dong Dang,
south of the frontier.
With the capture of the pass
gateway to Indo-China, the whole
of southwestern Kwangsi province
has been cleared of the enemy.
The Chinese forces are striking
from recently captured Liuchow
along the Hunan Kwangsi railroad
towards its northern terminal of
Hengyang and have captured
Lojung, twenty miles northeast of
Liuchow Saturday.
The enemy forces retreated
toward Luchai, twenty-eight miles
northeast of Liuchow on the high
way to Kweilin with the Chinese
in hot pursuit, the high command
said.
The way to fight a woman is
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Alaska Airlines
Plane Crashes
On Tundra
(Continued from Page One)
The passengers were Mrs. E. J.
Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. George
Lemon, Mr. Keith Bushfield, Maj.
or W. W. Rostet, U. S. Army; and
Sam Shafsky, pilot of the ill-fated
plane, and were brought to Nome
Sunday morning from McGrath
by the Alaska Airlines Douglas
l plane from Anchorage, piloted by
; Captain Flahart.
The rescue was the thirty-first
successful mission in the past 17
; months for the Nome based
Search and Rescue flyers — the
| fourth mission in the past four
months.
Victor Murdock, Aged
Publisher, Dies In Wichita
WICHITA, Kans., July 9—<;P)—
Victor Murdock, 74, editor of the
Wichita Eagle, who as a member
of Congress in the early nineteen
hundreds helped to restrict speak
ers in the House of Representa
tives died yesterday
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body’s an enemy up there.”
General MacArthur reported
from Manila that the Far East Air
force fighters and bombers had |
pummeled other enemy communi
cations and supply centers of For
mosa and along the China inva
sion coast.
The “Jack” fighter is the new
first line single engine navy plane
with a thirty-five foot wing
spread and thirty-two feet long.
Its combat radius is three hun
dred miles.
I “Well, yes, I did have a good
time with him, but I was think
I ing of you all the time, dear.”
Service Wounds
More Severe As
Fight Nears Japan
SEATTLE, July 9 — <£*) — The
wounds suffered by American
service men are becoming more
severe the closer the United States
forces approach Japan, Lt.-Gen.
Seymour, Navy doctor said, when
the former luxury liner docked
here with 1,819 men from Pacific
war fronts, one-third of whom
were wounded.
In this low altitude a good way
to prevent nose bleed is to keep
the old snozzle out of other peo
ple’s business.
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weather was bad and the water
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from a trip to the States where
they have been visiting with
friends and relatives. They
brought home their son Elliot, who
has been attending school in Ore
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