Troops Continue Active Campaign Against Rebels Jerusalem, Sept. 5.
British troops clashed with terrousts, A bomb exploded in the British barracks in Nazareth.
British military police routed an armed band of Arabs in a pitched battle at the village of - Lidd near Nazareth. Fourteen of the Arabs were killed and two captured during close quarter fighting.
At Haifa, a Jewish customs guard and a bus driver were virtually roasted alive when a band of Arab terrorists set fire to a Jewish omnibus.
Two Arab bandits, meanwhile, were killed by British troops at the Jewish settlement of Benyamina.
In the city of Nazareth, a bomb exploded in the Casanova Hospice where à detachment of British troops of the Essex Regiment were billeted. Another bomb exploded in the Latin Quarter Russian building. Damage in both cases was minor.—United [geosmc a major gain along the "shortest route to Hankow", 4 Japanese troops at 2 o'clock k yesterday afternoon occupied Kwangtsi, walled city on the south-eastern edge of the Tapieh 1 range in western Hupeh province, a Domei dispatch from Kiukiang claimed last night.
With the fall of this city, the Japanese were in a position to threaten the rear of Wusueh, strongly fortified port on the northern bank of the Yangtze. Extending from Wusueh across the river to Matouchen is a boom barring the way to the Japanese Navy in'its westward advance through the Yangtze "bottle neck" area.
Japanese units pushing westward along the southern bank of the river succeeded in taking strong Chinese positions established in the hills south-west of Juichang one after another, a Kiukiang message claimed.
These units were claimed to have occupied not only Pichiashan hill but Kungshan and Tashan hills Monday night.
The Japanese in this sector now are driving north-west from a line linking Shwangchuangsze and Shwangfengchien.
Other units were converging on Tehan, half way between Kiukiang and Nanchang, by two routes after the successful capture of Mahweiling, where the Chinese suffered exceptionally heavy losses, The vanguards were believed to be Jess than five kilometres from Tehan.
Aerial scouts reported that Chinese troops were retreating in disorder from Kwangtsi, which is a strategical town on the shortest highway to Hankow.
In a successful night attack Japanese forces advanced within striking distance of Kwangtsi, Another detachment pushing westward from Huan in Central Anhwei to Sinyang on the southern section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway occupied Nantakiao, 10 kilometres south of Kushih, a strategic town on the highway to Sinyang.
Japanese naval authorities announced that naval units ce-operating with land forces were steadily driving up the Yangtze. Observers pointed out that capture of Kwangtsi will enable the Japanese to push straight south on Nanchang or westward on Wuning and Yangsin, points along the so-called inner defence line of Hankow.
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