Blasting their way from the air, Japanese forces today were surging southwards from Juichang towards Tehan, the pivotal point in the Chinese system of defences halfway between Kiukiang and Nanchang in Kiangsi province, Urgent dispatches from Domei correspondents with the Japanese troops on this front, yesterday morning reported that the southward push was renewed at dawn from Tsaokiapan, 17 kilometres north of Tehan. Tsaokiapan was taken by four Japanese detachments at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
An intensive use of heavy bombing aircraft featured this Japanese advance. More than 100 army aircraft, in addition to almost an equal number of naval craft, were assigned to this front to blast out the Chinese from their positions in the hilly terrain west and south of the Lushan mountains,
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