Chinese tanks and artillery yester-Jday rumbled their way to "Sinyang, important Honan town 170 kilometres north of Hankow, as the Nationalist Jcommand hurled' men and material unto that area in a determined attempt to halt the Japanese threat to the Wuhan tri-cities from the north.
Forces under Gen. Vu Hsueh-chung. jand Gen. Sun Lien-chung, deployed ug the Peiping-Hankow Railway south of Chengchow, were ordered to leoncentrate at Sinyang, where one regiment each of artillery and tanks was being rushed from Hankow, [Domei reports from the Honan front said yesterday.
Their progress hampered -by roads pitted with tank-traps and destroyed bridges, thousands of disorganized Chinese troops were moving west towards the railway, according to [Japanese aerial observation reports.
Meanwhile Japanese troops in possession of all three pivotal points of! the Chinese defence triangle in southeastern Honan were marking time al Shangcheng and Kwangekow, _con-[solidating their positions following the Joining of several columns.
Kwangchow Seized By Ruse clever ruse, used in the seizure of Kwangchow, enabled the Japanese' to capture this strategical town with a toll of only 39 casualties, Japanese staff officers revealed. Chinese losses fon the outflanked north sector numbered 855 in abandoned dead alone.
In approaching Kwangchow 1 Friday, the Japanese forces advancing from 'Kushiu' to the east, halted at point three kilometres from the city. walls, "Huge bonfires were ordered lit, these' succeeding in causing the Chinese to believe that the main Japanese force was concentrated to the east Meanwhile, a Japanese column proceeded north of the town, where it was joined by another column which had advanced on the Hwai River from Pengpu. This combined force then launched an attack on the depleted Chinese left flank Which col lapsed almost instantly.
Booty captured by this combined Japanese force comprised two. tomobiles, two water-cooled machineguns, five light-machine guns, 56 cases of ammunition, and 0 cases of hund-grenades, in addition to large quantities of transport equipment in-
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