Hankow, Oct. 10. XCEEDING the famous Chinese success at Taierchwang in magnitude, a sweeping Chinese victory in the vicinity of Tehan, important point on the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway about 40 miles to the south of Kiukiang, is claimed in an official Chinese military. dispatch received here today.
No less than 20,000 Japanese are claimed to have been wiped cut, these comprising two whole divisions, Only a few hundred of the rempaats, it is reported, succeeded in making good their escape from) the alleged Chinese encirclement.
The battlefield, according to the dispatch, is literally strewn with Japanese dead, rifles, machine-guns, fieldpieces and ammunition. The men who are said to have perished at the hands, of the Chinese, it is stated, are from. the 101st and 106th divisions.
Crack Cantonese units are said to have been responsible for the victory. They are reported to have stormed the Japanese positions situated in the hills to the west of Tehan. Under the command of General Hsueh Yueh, they are said to have launched a general offensive at 6 p.m. on the afternoon of October 7, and finally to have wiped out the greater part of ihe Japanese defenders last night.
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