Tunnelling and mining operations were the greatest factors in the Japanese Army attack against a huge conerete pillbox this week on the Lutien-Liwhang sector, which their heaviest artillery and aerial bombs could not shatter, stated the military spokesman at the press conference yesterday. As their mines exploded the infantry rushed im and drove the Chinese troops from their stronghold.
According to the spokesman, the pillbox was 100 metres square and had been constructed from a number to the spokesman. Japanese troops in this sector had been withdrawing to Yangtszepoo and Woosung. In fact, their retreat was so rapid that in a short time the field became empty as far as the Chinese soldiers Mere fighting has also been ould see.
going on along a line from Ssu-siang-lung-mino, north-west of Lotien, to Lotien, and from Lotien to Liuhang, according to the spokesman. North of Ssu-signg-kung-miao the Japanese forces, about one regiment Strong, made several attempts to break through the Chinese line but failed to make any impression on Chinese resistance.
South of Liuhang on the north bank of the Woosung Creek, small parties of Japanese soldiers attempted to surprise the Chinese troops under cover of darkness but without success, the spokesman said. At Kóo-chia che, southeast of Liuhang, a portion of the wire entanglements was damaged by Japanese shelling.
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