The Japanese column, which reached Yungchen, was comprised of mechanized cavalry units, including more than 80 tanks. One detachment of this column, it was stated, was headed in the direction of Tangshan, While another was proceeding towards Kweiteh.
While the with their backs were fighting desperately and holding on to positions south of the line, Chinese flying columns were attacking Yung-chen and Mengchen, threatening the rear of the Japanese forces, the re. ports stated.
The 'Japanese column, which advanced. north towards' Haichow, along the coast, had been halted at Funing, in north Kiangsu, it was claimed, with the Chinese holding the north bank of the old Yellow River bed, north of the city.
A small Japanese cavalry detachment, reports said, went around the Chinese left flank reaching Tungsian cheng, northwest of Funing, and on the east bank of the Yen River, On the Tientsin-Pukow, north of Pegpu, the Chinese and Japanese forces were reported to be opposing each other across the Hui River, south of Kucheng, Further south, in the Hofei area, the Chinese had m ched Chaohsien on May 13, but they withdrew later towards Hofei when the city was threatening by the Japanese, Latest advices indicated that a detachment of Japanese troops had entered the east gate of Hofei, and that street fighting was going on there at present with the Chinese stubbornly holding out.—Reuter; Chinese Recapture 34
Shansi Cities Hankow, May 16.
The Chinese military spokesman today th Chinese that in Shansi province forces had recaptured 84 cities, previously occupied by the Japanese, and that, between March 7.10 y 10, the Chinese in had otod Japanese casu totalling 27,780 killed and wounded."
After iwo months of hard ing in the Shansi mountains, the spokesman declared, the © Chinese forces had finally succeded in driving out tha Japznese and, as soon as province wa ely cleared o ese troops, would
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