Rain has been falling in this sector: since September 16, drenching the The Chinese defenders, sheltered 1n concrete pillboxes described by Japanese officers as being of Soviet design. Were at a double advantage. These positions, strategically placed on commanding hill tops, are virtually invisible in the heavy underbrush which ig gradually turning to an aulumnat gold, the reports stated.
The temperature, "the dispatches added, is more like that of late November than one expected In. September. With Shawo, another pivotal point in this sector, already in Japanese hands, the collapse of an organized Chinese defence in this sector was said to be expected momentarily by Japanese staff officers.
Chinese troop concentrations and) motorized supply columns in the Yangtze Valley sectors were subjected to intensive aerial attacks by Japan-fosse naval aircraft on Friday, a communique issued by the command of the Japanese China Seas Fleet an' nounced yesterday.
In South China, the activities of the fying branch of the Japanese navy were restricted to the areas close 10 the coast because of low lying cloud formations.
For the third time in. succession, military establishments at Yambsien in south-western Kwangtung, near the Bay of Tongking, and the' Yuantan bridge on the Canton-Hankow Railway were bombed, the communique stated,
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