Ca-operating with infantry, Japanese. army "planes bombed heavy artillery positions near Lanfeng and Chinese troops concentrated west of Kaifeng.
Japanese units which tured Ningling, 30 kilometres wêst of Kweiteh, at 9 o'clock in the afternoon of May 30 are pursuing Chinese forces further westward,.the m. sages claimed.
A Japanese detachment was said to have routed about 15,000 Chinese at a point about 30 kilometres southeast of Kweiteh after a clash lasting several hours.
One Chinese division was routed in a brief engagement southwest of Kweiteh.
A delayed despatch from Peiping said the Japanese Matsui detachment broke through lines held by more than 2,000 Chinese and defeated them in a clash near Chinlochen, nine kilometres south of Lishih in western Shansi. Hour hundred Chinese were killed in this engagement, the message claimed.
Chinese troops which have been attempting to recapture Chungyang, six kilometres south of Lishih, have suffered severe losses in a series of counter-attacks on positions held by the Furpichi detachment, the message declared. The Chinese forces, numbering about 8000 started the counter-attacks on May. 22 and every one has been beaten off, the reports said, Japanese units which crossed the border into Honan province after starting a, drive from Pohsien in north-western Anhwei also are pushing westward, the messages added.
Fighting was said to be still going on in Luyi, 24 kilometres west of Pohsien.
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