Japanese Assert Occupation of Tayeh and Kishui; Women and Children Evacuate jEFINITE indications that the final Chinese defenses for Hankow and the Wuhan area are crumbling, were received here yesterday morning in the form of Domei dispatches from various Japanese-field headquarters which announced that Japanese units not only have taken the strong Chinese position at Tayeh, but have also captured Kishui, strategic Chinese defence outpost northwest of Kichun.
The communique also announced that the column which captured the Tayeh mines skirted the city to the west and advanced to a point approximately seventeen kilometres northwest of Tayeh.
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