After the statement on the capture Jot Chochow last. night, Japanese military authorities "have issued a communique which says thatthe Japanese Unit which crossed the Japanese Extend Pront Since the offensive began on Tuesday on a comparatively narrow front, the Japanese have extended thelt operations to the lett and right, and claim the eupturé of @ dozen small towns ang villages. longa. TO-mile altetehing from the mountains hankow Railway through Kuan to a point thirty miles from Tientain.
Ater cresting the Hun River, the Jepanese assert that they made vance from four to nine miles clu dhe frst 24 hours of the battle, which {is the most important in' the present ostlties In North China, Chinese troops, estimated to num= bor more than 160000, fought a most stubborn rear-suerd action against the jerwhelming mechanical equipment Of the Japanese. Whole. companies from Tientsin to Paotingt and. im-[mediately south of Tangshan, where the territory is very rugged.
The Japatese infantry and artillery, the statement declares, were engaged Jduring the morning in this sector and captured Hislloutsun, five Kilometres th of Tangshan.
Japanese military ofclals also Jetatm to has captured Hunyuan, the most. Important centre in. North Shansi, on the Hopel-Charhar border. Meanwhile, Paotingfu has again been
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