With only an occasional exe lot rifle shots between the most vanced picket, posts to denote th {two fully equipped opposing armies were facing each other across a nar of territory, extending yards from Livho to Nanziang, both the Japanese landing forces, under the command of General.
and General Tsut Ting
yesterday to internal organisation, divisions" devoted Not even a brief, machine engagement between' patrolling tachments of the two forces in t neutral zone around the Wangtu Jand Hatsuko perimeter, was, roportled, while the scattered and disorganized Chinese troops, believed to Ibe retreating through' the Liuho= Kiating sector, apparently had. suc-Jeeeded in evacuating that territory, jas they also were unheard from, (On the entire 20 miles front the only activity. noted was at" the new Zichengying landing base of the Japanese "lith Division, on. the Yangtze River near Litho, where cavalry' mounts and supplies were landed. from converted. transports, Behind the Japanese lines in the Kiangwan, Chapel and Chenju dive ftriets, the infantry of the Sth Division, together with the component technical units, were engag. led_in establishing proper lines. of communication, clearing away the wrecked defences abandoned by the 9th Route Army and recuperating latter a week of steady, sharp fight: ing. Along the line of the Shang. thai-Nanking Railway, members of [Japanese technical units were busy repairing culverts, switching points andre-laying the' metals at_points where the line had been interrupted. From Woosung to Nangiang the yy now is in the hands of the Japanese army and it is believed that the system will be used for transporting supplies to the forward positions as soon as practic: fable. While the retreating Chinese forces removed all movable rolling stock to interior points, two locomotives and a number of waggons discovered by the Japanese in the repair shops. One engine already is operating from Woosung to Kiangwan station and the other is, Jexpected on in a few days, With the latest, reinforcements, giving the 11th Division sufficient troops to maintain the right flank without difficulty, the day also was devoted in the Liuho-Kiating sector to consolidation. In the Woosung fortified area the units of the 11th, Division which recently replaced the naval forces there were engaged in locating concealed Chinese mines and in general clearing the forts of wreckage,
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