This position was stormed ut 1,30 o'clock in the afternoon, By 7 o'clock, Japanese vanguards seized the northern gate of Hwoshan, from Where other units battered their way Into the city three hours Inter in ce-operation with another force attacking from the east, More than 500 bodies of slain Chi-egg soldiers were counted on the road leading from the East Gate to the Hsien emees, used for the Japfanese "victory march" this morning.
Meantime, Japanese scouting alr-craft reported feverish activity among. Chinese troops deployed in the area between the eastern Honan border and) Kushih, with Likiatsi and Yehkials! forming defence centres. Positions extending over a length of 100 kilometres along the left bank of the Shih River were sighted, To the south-west, among" the foothills of the Tapieh mountains nour the Honan-Hupeh border, Jap-lanose observers reported a triangular aystem of defences linking Shawo, 60 kilometres south of Kwangchow, and Sintien, 20 kilometres south of Shang-chen, Kushih, Shangeheng and Kwange chow are the three major cities In south-eastern Honan, The defences prepared in the barren foothills of the Tapieh moun-{tains in the Shawo-Sintien sector, Japanese airmen said, showed signs of having been prepared several months ago, presumably soon after the fall of Hsuchow in May.—Domei, Battle on Yellow River Hankow, Aug. 30.
Fighting has broken out once again on the Yellow River front, according to Chinese dispatches, which state that "fighting of the' severest nature is proceeding on the north bank of the Yellow Rive The Chinese forces, it reported, are stubbornly holding on to the strategic crossings, rees continued to pursue the Japanese who retired towards the Yangtze, Chinese reports issued here claim. The reports further announce the recapture from the Japanese of the town of Susung. The occupation of this town, Chinese circles declare, enabled the Chinese to increase their Pressure on -Hwangmel which is stated to be the last position on the Tslenshan-Taihu railway line still in the hands of the Japanese, Chinese reports indicate that most of the Japanese forces in this district had been withdrawn from this sector prior to the opening of the Chinese offend sive and transferred to the region of Hofei in Central Anhwei from where the Japanese launched their offensive to the west, On the southern bank of the Yang-zo, the Japanese troops advancing from Juichang made relatively slow Progress, since the Chinese offered stiff resistance. 'They succeeded. however, in pushing forward towards Wusueh,' The Chinese forces in this region had been reinforced by two fresh divisions which were, however, not able to stem the Japanese advance on Wusueh where the first boom across the Yangtze has been Prepared, and on Sienning on the Canton-Hankow railway.
Commenting on the Japanese operations on Lake Poyang, the military organ "Sao Tang Pao" expresses feat that the Japanese might land troops fon the eastern shore of the lake and launch an attack on Nanchang from
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