Chungking, Nov. 20.
The Japanese advance in North Kizngsi is at present held upon the north bank of the Hsin Tiver, while the Japanese forces on the Hupeh-Hunan highway are being engaged by Chinese troops the vicinity of Chiuling, north of the Mofushan mountain ranges, according to a despatch from General Chen Chen, who is in charge of operations on the south bank of the Yangtze.
The Japanese troops pushing southward along the Canton-Hankow Railway, he adds, are being engaged by the Chinese in the mountains south of Yochow, in the vicinity of Matang. Chinese mobile columns in the Japanese rear, the General claims, have recaptured Tsung-yang, where the Hunan-Hupeh highways approaches the Canton-Hankow Railway.
Wide powers have been given to various war area commanders in order to enable them to take swift and independent action in accordance with the Chinese Government's new mobile warfare tactics, according to Chinese press reports.—Reuter.
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