Nanchang, Aug. 27. [HE Japanese drive against Hankow, which is now gathering renewed momentum, appears to be concentrating upon a more lor less direct advance along the north and south banks of the Yangtze, The result is that the attack southwards in the direction of Nanchang, where the Japan ese have recently been making feelers, has been brought to a standstill, temporarily at least, When Reuter's correspondent visited the front-line defences jin the hills in this area, a valley beyond the Chinese lines, which had once been a major battlefield, had been reconverted into an outwardly peaceful area. There in the valley scores of Chinese busily harvesting the rice crop.
The village near by, which a week Jago had been intact, was now a mass of wreckage, pervaded by the stench of corpses.
Even around this shambles, how-aver, the villagers were engrossed in uprooting vegetables, and recovering their farm animals.
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