After forging through the moun-famous region ten kin. west of Juichang for eight days, two Japanese detachments reached a point eight kin, from the eastern border of Hupeh Sunday afternoon, according to a message from Kiukiang.
Changchiachai, Chinese stronghold on the southewestern slope of Sikuling in the southern Lushan range in northern—Kiangsi, was completely captured Sunday morning by Japanese troops which already had occupied the summit of Sikuling the message stated, Crack Chinese units under the [command of Gen.
Chang Tsu-chung were holding strong positions southwest of Kwangchow, Following the capture of Fuchinshan on Sunday evening, Japanes forces at 5 o'clock on Monday morning occupied an 800-metre height, in the vicinity of Fuchinshan, according to a communique issued Monday afternoon by the headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Force in Central China, Chinese troops in this sector, numbering about fifteen divisions stationed in the highlands west of Yehkiatsi on the Anhwei-Honan border, were being scattered to the west after ten days of furious attacks by the Japanese detachments, which were continuing their drives in close pursuit of retreating Chinese columns, the communique claimed,
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