Air Base, Mar. 28 Japanese army aircraft, co-operate ing with surface forces, today successfully forestalled a Chinese attack upon Wusueh, Yangtze port in western Hupeh province.
Two Chinese divisions, under Gen. Wang Tan, a subordinate of Gen. Liao Lei, who had been hemmed into the Tapieh mountain range, recently began moving towards Wusueh with the apparent intention of threatening Japanese communication lines on the Yangtze. The Chinese seemed to believe that Japanese garrisons on the northern bank of the Yangtze had been reduced in order to obtain effectives for the Nanchang operations—Domei.
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