General Matsui, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forees. accompanied by Major-General Harada and other oticers, returned the calls of Admiral Sir Charles Little and Major-General Telfer-Smollett HEMS, Cumberland st 10 am, on Nov. 17 and was received with full honours. General Matsui is here seen boarding the British flagship, jangehow Bay.
Retreat From Wusth Phare by enows fall of Soochow on Friday morn This unit, added, meved onn cee ces Coe moved upon Wusih the same day began to retreat fom Pingwang creeks and lakes.
Westward, the headquarters of the Japanese' expeditionary force here Kashing's Fatt Admitted Claimed yesterday. Observation flights indo ce Chinese troops area, the Army communique. sangebow, Nov, 20, "ode & milliary alseratt over the said from' Kushing to a new defence Tine shoved the troops in retreat slong day afternoon was confirmed alle nels of transportation, includ-a delayed message Tecelved here Ing. creek railway and highways cit of the Japan: creeks running west of Wusih, the ered one tattered city Miers reported, were fled with Junics 'o'cioc the sume afiernoo, <2¥ing Chinese troops and ainu ihe wisinity of ashing are' plan: occupied Kashing on Friday "were Chinese reinforcements sani tion- The Japanese units which
aunter-abacks to recapture. the said by the communique 10° be con lly, which, bei Stunted on. the Hcuing their advance towards. Nan-Shanghai-Hangchow "and. Soochow. king ashing oilways s of wheat strategic Another communique published on Saturday placed the Chinese casual-{ios in the 12-day battle in the vicine Lungshan Bombarded ity. of Taihu Lake that preceded the fall of Soochow at 200,000, of whom Japanese naval also [30.000 men were said to have been bombarded Lungshan, and it is be- killed, according to Domei. lclermined Japanese Across the rain-drenched plains of attempt to break the boom of Kiang- the lower Yangtze Delta a wall of where the strongest Chinese forts steel-helmeted Japanese soldiers, 240 16 are situated, sim slam ug, yesterday was clos same ing pon the latest Chinese reports, severe taking defence tine stretching from Kiang-'Soochow-Kashing yin on the north to Hangchow on where Chinese nforee- the south ments are said to be engage axivaneing Japanese Two New Objectives Meanwhile, the development of a] As Eh se troops fled in confusion Japanese thrust the direction of ever farther west, fying columns of Wah, with the intention of cutting Japanese shock troops, striking from off the Nanking ay is indicated by three ireetions and' supported by ihe capture of Nani, west of Ka- squadtro of bombing planes and tillers barrages, clung relentlessly
aviation thai the twin objectives of Kianayin and authorities, Jon their "heels onslaughts upon
necess" of the Japan= Wysit: necordi ud Nanain "can have to Domei, Jubilant over their capture of the the fate an Forts on the Yangtze and because the "defences be-almost bloodless coup asin and. Wlangyin re very Soochow, "the city of the sleeping entries." the Japanese columns. swept on swiftly toward Kiangyin, through their spi rising as those of the Nanking to the front, 'They seem defeated Chinese fel fo belong to reconstructed and Simultaneously with the drives in equipped' divisions.—Reute the northern sector of the 240- tslometre line, two" ether Japanese Nov, 21, "conquerors of According tv news reports from New 1g—tOok 10. oats York tovday, 800 Chinese soldiers of driving a "Noating wedge" toward the former Northeastern Army under Huchow, directly south of Taihu Lake, "inese "waterlzed™ units were the command Hsueh-long wore executed by Central forming "Huchow from two sides slong a big canal which flows neat Government troops on September 17 the town, and were making the decp-Jest thrusts yet attempted by Japan-received by an Associated Press fre, laing, parties operating from Hangchow Bay. oreign military "attache-—Domet, Japanese bombing' planes covered the thrusts of infantry, scouted effee-Capture of Fushan Forts lively ahead for the advancing units Shanghai Nov, 22, [snd barrassed retreating Chinese near The Fushan Forts, dominating tne Wusih and Kiangyin. When news the Langshan the fall of Kashing tered through Crossing, were captured by a Japan- (0 Pinghu and Chapoo Chinese troops. ese naval landing party on Saiurday, there fled from their positions. Others. the Japanese naval authorities here began retreating from Haiyen toward announced yesterday.
Following a|Hangchow, it was reported. protracted and vigorous bombardment Aiding the assault on Huchow, a the fortiftations by Japanese military air squadron bombed Chin-Warships the bluejackets had utile [ese soldiers there and also carried jdinieuity in occupying the area the out extensive bombing operations at statement added.
Changshing and Chinkiang along the With the district completely clear-|¥angize. Leading the advance on cut off, because of the rapid progress ed of Chinese troops, the Rising Sun jangyin and Wusih were the Hanaya, made by the northern Japanese wing, Flag now flutters over the fortifiex~ Nagatsu detachments. operating in great t.ons. The Japanese line of advance|from Hualingtang, while the 'Noda.'
rue from the Pushan Forts Tsuda and supporting units were board pushing forward from the southern area of Shanhu, west of Changshu, adds Domei.
Retirement South of Taihu Nanking, Nov. 22.
'The Chinese forees at Wangting, on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway' "be-(ween Soochow and Wusth withdrew yesterday, and are falling bacis on} line between Wusih and Kiangyin, Chinese reports.
Chinese military thorities stale that the Japanese advance south of the Taihu. is making progress. Chinese troops wididrew. yesterday morning south of Nanzin, and are reticiny 10 the Wushing-Hangchow defences—
Reuter, Plane Drops Letter to Gen. Chiang Shanghai, Nov. 23, Chinese forces are expected "to make a determined stand in defence of Nanking on a line between Tun-yang and Chinkiang, according 10 Japanese advices yesterday. 'The 'Japanese claimed that Wusth, th ey-point in the line between' that. ity and the strongly fortified Kiang. yin forts, had been captured, but there was no official confirmation.
South of the Tahu Lake, the [Chinese "admitted withdrawals. to: wards a line between Wushing and Hangchow: The Japanese are thrust. ing forward on three " fronts, and jelaim to have found the Chinese @elenders in several sectors sulfering from lack of feod and other disabilities due to the disruption of their Jines of communications, Yesterday a Japanese plane dropped a letter over Nanking addressed fo General Chiang Kai-shek, advising him {0 surrender. In a spectacular battle over the capital a Chinese plane was shot down in flames, Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, Commander= in-Chief of the Chinese forces, yesterday afternoon was urged to Surrender in a message dropped in Nanking by a Japanese naval acroplane piloted by Lieut. Mochifumi Nanga, one of the leading Japanese airmen operating on the Shanghai front, Accompanied by his subordinates, Lieut. Nanga paid a visit to the} former Chi lal at 2. o'clock yesterday afternoon. No bombs were This was the fist flight over Nanking by Japanese naval alreratt since the announcement of the transfer of the Chinese national capital to Chungking:
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