The communique also claims fur-there activity in the South Yangtze area, including the surrounding of three sides of 1,000 Japanese troops. It declare:
"The Japanese forces in the vicinity of Ishing, a strategic city on the Nanking-Hangchow highway broke through the Chinese cordon and retired inside the city walls of Ishing to-day. The Chinese troops Retreat to Hsiangchen According to another message from Hsuchowfu, the Japanese are retreating in a north-easterly direction with the evident intention of joining their comrades at Hsiangchen, twenty miles south-west of Lingyi.
The Chinese troops reported to have reoccupied Hanchwang are said io have accomplished this feat after crossing the Grand Canal Hanchwang lies at the junction of the Canal and the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, and is situated north of Hsuchowfu.
An official communique issued by the Chinese military authorities this The Tsinpu Front
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