The capture of Huchow, south of Lake Tai, by Japanese forces early on Wednesday morning was confirmed by a Japanese Army spokesman yesterday, The advancing Japanese, he said, were already west of the town, North of the lake Japanese forces, pressing on Wusih, were "probably about four kilometres east of the town," the spokesman said. Official dispatches on troop movements were lacking, he asserted, Intensive bombardment by naval planes of Chinese positions in Kiangyin. Tanyang and several points along the Lung-hai Railway on Wednesday were announced by a naval communique issued yesterday morning, Kiangyin Fort on the Yangtze, Chinese concentrations along the Shanghai-Nanking Railway and Ishing, north-west of Lake Tai, also were the objectives of bombing raids, the communique said
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