Woosung Forts Only Point Holding Out Against the Japanese: New Chinese Line Formed Following an order given by, General Tsai Ting-kai, Commander of the Nineteenth Roste Army, at 4 pam, on Tuesday, a general retreat of the Chinese torves. in t a was commenced early" yesterday. morning, and last night practically the entire area as far as Nanziang, the Shanghai-Nanking Railwa; was cleat of Chinese troops after over one month of fighting.
Of all the important strongly-entrenched Chinese positions from, the mouth of the Whangpoo River to Nanziang, west of Chenju. the Woosung Forts Inst night were the sole remaining defences in the immity of Shanghai not captured yesterday by the Japanese forces operating in this sector.
Taziang, Chapei, including the North Station and all the barricades machine-gun emplacements Which "interlaced that district, Chenju and the entire rear entrenched area, together with Livho and fa Iavge section of territory in that neighbourhood, one after another were evacuated, starting early yes terday morning, by the Chinese Nineteenth Route Army and its sociated divisions. Even Nantao and. the Lunghua district were denuded of Chinese soldiers as all the forces under the command of General Tsai 'Ting-kai moved off in the direction of Quinsan, where the new headquarters of the' Nineteenth, Route Army are said to have been' established.
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