Tunnelling and mining operations were the greatest factors in the 'Japanese Army attack against x huge conerete pillbox this week on the Lotion-Liuhang sector, "which their Heaviest artillery and serial bombs could not shatter, stated the military Spokesman at the press' conference yesterday. As their mines exploded he infantry rushed it. one. drove the Chinese troops from their stronghold.
According to the spokesman, the pillbox was 100 metres square and boon constructed from a number conerete buildings, which were connected and reinforced for military purposes, Two separate tunnels were ult, When it was pointed out by a Journalist that the sub-surface water might be'a handicap, the spokesman nia that the tunnels were dug only one metre down and that infantry nen bailed out the water while the engineers continued digging.
Victory Dentea Chinese claims of a victory in the Kiangwan sector were emphatically denied last night by a Japanese mililary. spokesman.
There has been practically no mili tary activity in the area during the day yesterday, and the Japanese lines had remained intact, he asserted, Muge Pires Fires extending over two or three miles beyond Kiangwan were noted yesterday" afternoon. Village after village was seen going up in flames. With the horizon finally clouded by smoke, it was difficult" to see what was going on, but It appeared from the direction of the ever-increasing. fires, that the Japanese were making headway in that sector, From' far out, in the direction of Liuhang, there' were a series explosions which sent great mushrooms of smoke into the alr. The explosions were bigger than bomb explosions, since they shook the ground in Shanghai "though they appeared to be almost a dozen miles away,
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