Japanese infantry which advanced from Aikow toward Tehan continued general assault yesterday on Toling hil, strong Chinese position guarding Tehan on the north. Other mobile! columns, which reduced Loki by smashing the centre of a Chinese line between Yangsin and Tehan, were scoring further gains in their drive toward Tehan, Hwachunao was occupied by Japanese detachments after a swift advance from Sunklawan, Yuklasitang and Teulungting, Chinese strongholds northeast of Sintanpu which were leaptured a few hours earlier. '"The [Chinese were said. to be retreating westward in disorder.
The landing at Weiyuang Lake was. curried out in the face of artillery jand machine-gun fire. Striking for shore under cover of an artillery barrage, a naval unit gained positions '50 metres from the Chinese deployed fon the bank after wading some distance in the cold waters of the One hour later the bluejackets ded in blasting the booms: which had sealed the lake entrance.
Japanese troops were advancing on all fronts south of the Yangtze River and they have smashed through both wings of the Chinese defence line west of Tehan, the headquarters the Japanese Expeditionary Force in Ceniral China claimed in a communtque released yesterday.
The Japanese have broken through the Chinese Ynes at Toling, in the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway sector, and of Kanmukwan, in the Hsin River sector.
can be said that once both wings are broken there are no more positions," the statement declared.
The Japanese success, specially the capture of Loki, has weakened the Chinese forces not only in the Tehan tarea but in the Nanchang sector as well, Vast numbers of Chinese troops have been dispatched to the sector west of Tehan extending to the Hsin River and there were so many of them that they made a spectacle resembling, huge "human barricade," the statement said.
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