Confronted with elaborate Chinese defences, comprising several lines of trenches, at a point four kilometres west of the Chu River, between Kushih and Kwangchow, Japanese forces were reported to be engaged in subjecting Chinese positions to an intensive bombardment.
'Meantime, aerial observation reports indicated that an intricate system of defences had been' constructed in the vicinity of Kwangchow where large reinforcements were being rushed from Sinyang on the Peiping-Hankow railway and Loshan, halfway between Sinyang and Kwangchow.
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