'Abandoned by the retreating Chinese in the path of only one of the many Japanese advancing columns were 700 dead, one heavy gun, two! motor trucks, five machine-guns, and thousands of rountis of Fife" and. machine-gun ammunition.' Several Chinese were also taken prisoner.
Wounded in the right thigh during the "offensive, Kenju Tino, " com= mander of the detachment bearing. his name, directed operations from a stretcher.
Meantime, further west in the direction of Wuning, Japanese troops. were slowly surmounting the terrain. ditieulties, " augmented by continued rainfall, as they moved towards their objective silencing Chinese opposition on the way.
'By' yesterday afternoon, the Japanese tine had advanced "to. heights: south and north-west of Changlinkung, coupled with the complete: cupation of Kwanlinshan—Domel, Advance Along Lunghai Tokyo, Mar. 22.
Japanese detachments crushed about 10,000 Chinese troops in a sur-rise. alfack in the vicinity of Tun yangize along the Lunghat Railway, according to-a dispatch from a feld headquarters today.
Chengchow. important town at the iver in Hupeh also was Ported in the dispatch—Domel.
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