Shanghai, Nov. 6. Continuing their vigorous drive into the Interior of China with Hsnkow a5 the new base of operations, Japanese army and navy forces yesterday were converging by three outes—waterway, railway and. highway~on Yochow, approximately 180 hilometves from the Wuhan cities in 4 straight me, according to Domet Weld dispatches received here last evening.
Japanese forces which previously occupied Klayu on the Yangtze, about Hankow, and Puchi on the Canton Hunkow Railway, halt way between Sienning and Yochow, were moving rapidly. toward the latter objective, the reports said. The highway followed by army detachments also leads Changsha, capital of Hunan.
'A message from a Domei cor. rovpondent aboard a warship claimed hit the "Chinese Navy" had. been lwitled up in Lake Tungling, at the northseast corner of which "Yochow cvding to Domei field reports, Chinese retreated to the south and west, 'A Japanese detachment which reduced! Tungshan, 40 kilometres duc west of Puchi, kept up a southwestern drive and occupied Nanlinthen, halt way between Tungshan ud "tsungyang, Domei field reports Tsungyang Endangered This column was battling at Tsung-yank, important town on the high: Way running parallel to the Canton~ Mankow Railway to Changsha, about 29 kilometres south-east of Puchi.
Meanwhile other Japanese columns continued to draw closer their lines around large forees of Chinese Partially encircled in the Chengchow plain, south of the mountain range Which "forms the border between and Hupeh. A mopping-up When the Japanese erossed the Watershed of the Tapleh range the Chinese in that sector attempted to fall back to Hankow, but that city already had been captured; consequently part of the Chinese troops there retreated to Palko, south" of Mcheng at the southern base of the Fane, white the bulk of them moved Neslward to the Peiping-Hankow Railway,
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