Keeping aren Spai Nov. 10 coping abreast of the aval dvi on Yochow wilh was reported to be Seproximaely 20 nona! mie rom ily, Jepanese army fortes yor, terday "afternoon completed occupa: Hion'ot Yunki, an important poist'as the Chinese defence of Yochow only 2% Kilometres from the oily, a mes.
Japanese March Through Streets of Japanese troops marching through the streets of Hankow on November 3. in front of the Customs House, sage reaching here yesterday after. noon revealed, Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Japanese army declared yesterd afternoon that Japanese units operat ing from 'Tsungyang, on the south bank of the Yangtze, gained a. foothold in Tungeheng at' one o'clock, 'The entry into the Chinese stronghold, the spokesman said, was made only' after a bitter Aght against Chiese lodged in heavily fortified positions. Both the air and artillery farms of the army ce-operated with the infantry, the spokestaan said, With the fall of Tungeheng, which was not only a major stronghold of the Chinese retreat, but also. an important point in the Changsha defence, tne Japanese advance will be considerably facilitated, the spokes man sold. Yanglussu, the spokesman declared, was completely occupied at 7.30 am: on November 9.
'West of Hankow, the' spokesman said, the Japanese advance is continuing satisfactorily.
Unimpeachable information reaching here, the military spokesman said, asserts that General Vu Han-mou, Kwangtung Pacification Commission: er, has been executed.
This report, if correct, the spokesman said, goes to show that the much vaunted unity of China, especially among the military, "is no mor Capture of Tungeheng.
Shanghai, Nov. 10.
Advancing swiftly south, and west in a drive toward Yochow and Chang sha, Japanese troops captured 'Tung-cheng, a pivotal point in the main Chinese defence line near the Hunan. Hupeh border, after a brief bul spirited clash' yesterday afternoon, Domei field dispatches claimed.
Japanese troops were mopping up. stragglers in the city, The streets, were littered with Chinese dead and wounded, the message said, Situated near the Hunan-Hupeh border, Tungcheng was the centre of a defence line connecting "Yochow, Siushui, and Wuning. Capture of the town means the collapse of the Chiese line and placed the Japanese forces in an advantageous position for a direct thrust westward. toward, Yochow or south-westward to the Hunan capital, Domet feld alspatehes A Domei message from Honan stated that Nanyang, in the northern part of that province, had been eva-'Suated by the civilian population as about 20,000 soldiers, survivors of the Aghting in the Tapleh Mountains, Poured into the town. It was de: scribed as a "dead city." Chinese troops were said to be crossing the Peiping-Hankow Raflway in disorder, Stradale Cross Rattway into Hunan pr evince sredaieg Strong Japanese columns. pouring fained possession of "wusginetes and 'Tanglowkang, ey pointe one Fmandiog the line, and. scattered treating' Chinese tro ira toward: Yochow mlowkang, six" kilometres from the railway, fell to the Japanese $30 yesterday" morning, Hornet correspondent med. 'A mechanized town after an all-night cities its way into the The Chinese defences a tung, about 35 kilometres Yunglow-' south-west lot Puchi, collapsed before of another Jo en Ered peal enguard unit spanese ya
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