CETING with little resistance, four Japanese detachments completed mopping-up operations against stragglers here at neon today.
Fires started by exploding shells as the troops entered the city yesterday afternoon, were gradually subsiding.
Rising Sun flags flapped in the breeze and damson blossoms dotted the streets as two detachments which crossed the Kan River ey junks from Yangpingchow, two kilometres north of Nanchang "anon, aided by a tank unit, entered the north-western corner of che city at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Two other Japanese units entered by the south gate after crossing two creeks which flow outside the city—Domei.
Hankow, Mar. 28.
Several divisions of Chinese troops which had been stationed between the siu River and Nanchang have been rapped by the occupation of the Xuengsi capital and their retreat has veen cut off, field dispatches reaching here today claimed. Some of the vlunese forces in the area retreated the south-west.
A detachment which captured Feng-sin turned to the north and at 7
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