Sept. 7
Japanese advance on Hankow is pro-1g some interesting features not the least hich is the manner in which the Japanese nand has driven a narrow salient into the ese positions, along the Yangtze River.
Chinese posts on both sides of the wre joined into one line it will be found a wedge no more than about sixty-two wide, between Tatung on the south and Tungcheng some distance in on the 1 bank, and about one hundred and y miles long from Tatung to Matow has driven westward along the low-lying north and south of the river. Generally Chinese appear to have resorted to mountain system near both banks, while head of the wedge are the hills west 1 Poyang Lake a narrow strip of lat between the north bank and Kwangtsi, of the immediate objects of the Japanese s in order to obtain access to the high-running thence towards Hankow. Taking lotion as a whole the Japanese have, for rioment, no intention of striking into the atom system which is considered the main of the Chinese defence of Hankow, and ar to be content with operations calculated urn the Chinese positions on both of the river. Thus on the south bank Japanese columns operating out of Singtze Muhweilung are working down the jong-Nanchang Railway in the narrow between the mountains and the lake, Tehan as the immediate objective, with jong ultimately in mind, whence by a ment westwards, still on comparatively round, the Japanese apparently hope to the position which the Chinese have ished in the hills, To the north a ar manoeuvre Is apparently under way. ing originally from Hofei in Anhwei,
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