Important gains by Chinese troops operating in the Woosung and Lotien Setors were claimed by a Chinese slltary' spokesman at a press conference yesterday afternoon.
Th a flanking movement. launched tate on Thursday night, Chinese for~ ret captured Siao' Chuensha. yester-[Gay morning, thus completing' cor-'Mon around the Japanese (reaps in the vicinity of Lotien.
Sino. Chiensha, the spokesman ex: plained, was the original landing [place of the Japanese" troops. now Eurrounded at Lotien. Apparently token BY Surprise, the "Japanese [guarding the rear were dislodged by severe Chinese attack from the north-west of Sao Chuensha.
"Up to. yesterday, the spokesman said, two-thirds of the" entire area for Lotion were in Chinese hands, the portant "small" villages of Men chlacheh and Pangebiachen inthe Vicinity having fallen into Chinese bonds. The surrounded Japanese, he ferud, were very short of foodsiufts ud ammunition.
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