After capturing Szewanshan, northeast of Tienchiacheng, on the afternoon of September 24, the Chinese forces continued their push, a Chinese military communique stated yester day.
After occupying Huangtupo, the Chinese troops reached the hills in the vicinity of Maunshan and are now {reatening the rear of the Japanese forces at present at Tienchiacheng fort, the communique declared. Reuter.
Japanese Near Border:
Shanghai, Sept. 28.
Striking south across the western portion "of the forbidding Tapieh Fenge, Japanese troops on Sept. 26 were' nearing the Honam-Hupeh border north of Macheng, Domei dispatches from the front stated yesterday.
Following the occupation of Mopan-shan, south of Shawo, in south-eastern, Honan, a Japanese column was continuing its advance southward in the face of stubborn Chinese opposition.
Another column was also moving southward from Sintien with the apparent intention of joining the: force from Shawo at a point near the provincial border, the dispatches. said When these Japanese troops cross the Hupeh boundary they will be the third Japanese column to enter the NE] province. One unit is marching west long the northern bank of the Yang-zo from Kwangtsi after penetrating Into Hupeh from Anhwei at Susung; another is nearing Yangsin, on the southern bank, after cresting the Tawangshan range in its advance from Juichang.
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