Nantungehow's ¢ Captors Go Japanese troops completed the occupation of Tsungming Island at 10 o'clock yesterday morning after landing there at 5.90 o'clock in cooperation with the Navy, Japanese military authorities announced yesterday.
In a second communique the military authorities announced that the unit which occupied Nantungchow on the northern bank of the Yangtze on Thursday, occupied Paipuchen, about thirty kilometres north of Nantungchow, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. f The detachment is continuing a drive northward, the communique said. The troops set out for Pai-kuchen from Pingchaochen, about eighteen kilometres north-west of Nantungchow, early yesterday morne ing, having occupied that tawn the previous day,
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