Along roads hedged with dead and dying Chinese, Japanese vanguards yesterday advanced westward along the northern bank of the Yangtze towards Kichun in close pursuit of retreating Chiang Kai-shek forces, Domei dispatches from Tienchiacheng said, Marshalling its entire air force. on the Yangtze, the Japanese Navy on Thursday subjected fleeing Chinese troops to intensive bombardments and machine-gun attacks. More than 200 machines took part.
Japanese ground units, meantime, mopped-up Chinese stragglers from behind, With only one narrow road to follow towards Kichun, as the Yangtze shore line is bounded to the north by Makou Lake, Chinese forces were at the mercy of their Japanese pursuers.
Meantime, Chinese forces holding shore defence lines below Tienchiacheng were confronted with annihilation as Japanese naval landing parties launched a westward mopping-up drive from a point above Wusueh.
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