Hankow, Nov. 15. Japanese army aircraft today lieved to be a likely choice for the scoured the southern slopes of the Chinese commander's headquarters.
Tapleh range near the Hupeh-Anhwer 260th Division at Yuyang border in search of Chinese troop Femnants in that area. These Chinese Marching ahead of Gen. Chiang, the groups, some of them equipped with 26th Division of the Central Army' was! motor transport facilities, are sighted iso reported to have reached Yuyang in south-eastern Szechuen, near the principally in the vicinity of Lotien Hunan border. Both Yuanling and and Yingshan, two important Chinese strongholds which the Japanese pass-Yuyang are on the Hengyang-Chungking motor highway. fed by in their march' upon Wuhan.
The 26th Central Division was be-The strength of the Chinese forces cut off in this area has not been deter-eved to form the vanguard of a force mined, 'f about 190,000 men that Gen. Chiang is credited with intentions (0. station, Heavy bombing attacks were eat in Szechuen. Another 100,000 men ried out yesterday against 9 force of about 2,000 Chinese near Yingshan, ach, It is reported, are intended to reports received here today said. be sent to Kweichow and Kwangs provinees should Changsha and Heny-Meavy Chinese Losses yang fall. "Gon. Chiang wilt also create branch headquarters at Kwel-Meantime, Japanese military in-yang and at Kweilin, reports said, vestigations' into. the strength of the Gen. Chen Cheng, chief of stall, was Chinese troops engaged in the defence sald'"to be" directing' the fear-guara the Wuhan areas revealed that ction of the Chinese. "He was said heavy losses had "cut down {o have left a small force at Siangyins strength of front line divisions to the halfway between Yochow and Chang: point where some of them had only sha on the Canton-Hfankow railway, Mectives of five companies tip to two)
engage the Japanese—Domel. battalions.
Observers here were inclined Yoohow's Fall admitted minimize the striking power of the Chungking, Nov. 14 Chinese forces remaining in the The fall of Yochow ta ofieially.
Pocket created in western Kiangsi by mitted today by the "Chinese," ho he Japanese advance towards Nan-ate that, under pressure of " Sapan= chang in the east and towards Chang-tse attack along the railway and also sha in the west. vig "Tungting Lake, "Chinese. troop 'A Chinese defence line remaining! withdrew from Yothow on the night almost intact is that extending {rom of November 11 and by the next day cast to west along the Siu River from trid "established 'a neve in "the Wuning to Slushul, Japanese experts, vicinity of Malang." on the: Cantons however, tended to regard the Banke oilway oth echo, nese forces in this sector as being "the present Chinese line tune eat-the east shore of Tungting Late: able only to engage in sporadic raids In guerilla fashion—Domel. ward from Mosshau, an, the. shore Withdrawal from Siu River the railway, to Sinchuangling. seat Tangting Lake, through Matang, on Hankow, Nov. 16. West of 'Pargehen, 'Threatened by a Japanese outflank-Eventually the Chinese are expect-1 movement in' the direction of ea to hold strong lin la the Goal. /Pingkiang in eastern Hunan, Chinese! ing mountains, onthe "border troops holding the Wuning-Siushul Hupeh, Hunan and: Klangsie- Reuter, line in western Kiangsi along the Chinese Were Oulitanked banks of the Siu river have begun Felreating, aerial observation reports Chungking, Nov. 15. received by Japanese here said today.
'After Chinese military' circles had The Chinese, the dispatches said, oMleially admitted the fall of Yochow, were falling back in groups of from was declared yesterday that utter 500 to 1,000 men in two directions. three days of violent ghting the Some were seen marching from Chinese troops had withdrawn from Siushul to the south-east in the the Yochow region, The Chinese direction of Nanchang by way of proceeded southwards. along the were observed moving Changsha railway and westwards from Chatsin, "near the along Tungting Lake. The surrender lanes border towards Ping of Yochow was explained as being Purther east, Tuna ear. the unti due to a southern flank attack of the Lake, the Chinese were reported te Mie
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