alr 6en Fenuswo, National Boundaries aancs Seat Noll as! Rivers extended much beyond Canton, although they may be continued up the Canton-Hankow Railway.
In South China, international complications involving Great Britain and France are a factor in view of the overland routes to China from Burma and Indo-China to Chungking, via Yunnanfu (Kunming). Japanese protests have been raised in this connection as the South China operations were undertaken to cut off supplies from China, While Chinese military strength has been weakened by these operations, guerilla activity has increased enormously. The main area is in North China where the Sth Route (Communist) army is active attacking lines of communications and outposts, but at other points along Japan's tong battle front guerilla activities are causing the Japanese considerable trouble.
Important dates in the course of the hostilities since the outbreak in Shanghai on August 13, 1937 are Occupation of Shanghai, November 12, 1937: Nanking, December 14, 1937: Canton, October 21, 1938: Hankow, October 26, 1938.
In Hopel province were urged yester-chay to lay down their arms in a manic festo issued by Gen. Li Ying and Gen. Teul Pehste, respectively commanders of the first_and. second—Anti-com= munist Bandit Suppression Armies lider the "Provisional Government."
"The manifesto was issued following the opening session of the South opel Anti-Communist Conference Which opened yesterday at. Shunteh fon. the Peiping-Hankow oilway.
"Pointing out. the change in. the situation brought about by. the, fall fof Canton and. Hankow, the declara-lon treaiened with extermination any outlaw bands disturbing the peace Advance on Changsha With Japanese forces on south Yangtze front, Nov. 6.
Japanese forces today breached the outer defences of Changsha, capital fof Hunan province, os Tsurgyang, pivotal point on the military" road extending south from Wucha parallel to the Canton-Hankow Railway, was occupied at 1230 "clock Southeast of Puchi on the railway, Teungyang was the centre of Chinese military supplies during the battle for Hankow. It was here that Gen.
Chen Cheng, chief of staff of the Kuomintang" armies, directed the defence of Wuhan, Following the fall of Hankow, a' defence line extending east from Yochow at the mouth of Tungting Lake to Tungshan, in the hills soul': of Wuchang, was established by the Chinese passing through Tsungyang.
In a lightning advance that brought them 60 kilometres from Slenning, from where they started on October 31, the Japanese forces appeared off /Tsungyang today. Effecting a eross-jing of the Chun River under heavy Chinese fire, they poured into Tsun yang shortly afternoon. Before abandoning the city, the Chinese set fire to the vast amount of supplies still left in Tsungyang.
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