Peace token Only by Atinor Skirmishes Although Chinese official state~ ments issued in Shanghai yesterday and cabled simultaneously to the League of Nations at Geneva cla ed that the Japanese landing. forces there were continuing to press beyond Nanziang in a general engagement all along. the battle-front, the main units of Japanese troops comprising the 9th, and 1th. Divisions remain-inactive throughout the day thei positions extending from the, Nanking-Shanghai Railway to Liuho, through Kiating. From these central points on the Japanese line, where the advance halted on Wednesday, outputs and. patrols were thrown forward several. kilometres the direction of the Chinese defences, but there was no evidence, throughout the entire area, of any offensive movement.
In the district between Liuho and Kiating, which is held by the newly landed 11th, Division, several sharp
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