Speeding up their advance on two fronts, Japanese flying columns push-el deeper into Honan province from Anhwei and took possession of big Silees of territory in Hupeh and Kiangsi north and south of the Yang-tue yesterday as the Chinese Tehan defence line crumbles The Japanese military steamroller appeared to be attaining its greatest speed south of the Yangtze, where big concentrations of Chinese troops, imated to total nine divisions, wavered and broke south of Juichang tinder crushing blows from Japanese infontey, artillery and aeroplanes, according to Japanese dispatches from Japanese forces' which invaded Honan from Anhwei on Friday morning kept up their western drive yesterday amid a thunderstorm and ached 'a line connecting Chunglitze, Fukinshan and Shimenkow, about four kilometres west of Yehkiatsi, captured border town, according 10 messages from Liuhin in central On the northern front Japanese. troops were consolidating their positions at several fording points along Yellow River.
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