Supporting the infantry column sanese Army airplanes raided Kai:
ug and surrounding regions. About 24 trains and sections of Lunghai ack were heavily bombed and free ars concentrated near Chi-hose military barracks of the 8th and Divicions south-west of Kaifeng were blown up, a Peking message said At Chutun, 20 kin. west of Tangshan on the Lunghai, about 600 Chinese soldiers of the 102nd Division equipped with field guns were "annihilated" by Japanese troops, Peking reports said News of the fall of Hsucho spread-Honan Province has inten-n anti-Chiang movement m this territory, the Peking dispatches asserted.
In Yushih. 50 kin. southwest of Kaifeng soldiers and civilians organized an "autonomous: third army" of 4000 men, while in Tunghsu, 40 kin. south of Kaifeng, an "auto-nomeus first army" was formed to oppose the Hankow Government, the ages claimed.
Two thousand Chinese soldiers e killed or wounded when Japanese units engaged a force of 10,000 at Kungshanchi, 24 kin. southeast of Hsuchow on Sunday, a Succeeds in Making Junction with Other Troops West of Tsinpu Rlwy. at Designated Points Hankow, May 23.
HE Chinese forces, which withdrew in an easterly direction when the Japanese occupied Hsuchow and have since been claimed by the Japanese as being "trapped", have now succeeded in crossing the Tsinpu Railway westwards and formed a junction with the r of the Chinese armies, it is stated here.
A personal message from General Li Tsung-jen, the com mander of the troops in question, was received in Hankow late last night stating that all the Chines: forces from the Hsuchow area had successfully withdrawn now to their designated positions west
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