Japanese Remnants Still Holding Out; Chinese Operations on Troops in Hills Hankow, Oct. 11.
PPROXIMATELY 1,000 Japanese, remnants of the 101st and 106th Divisions, with a Division Commander, are still desperately holding out in the two hills ten miles west of Tehan, on the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway, according to the latest information available here.
The Chinese forces, who are reported to have scored a smashing victory yesterday in that area, today continue to close in on the Japanese, it is said. 4
This afternoon, ihe Chinese air force was ordered to engage in bombing operations over the hills, in order to blast out the remaining troops of the two Japanese Divisions.
Japanese forces, moving towards the southwest along, the Singtze-Tehan highway, in the direction of Tehan, captured Yaikou, strategic pass northeast of Tehan, yesterday morning. Fighting is still going on in the hills west of Yaikou.
Chinese circles here believe that the Japanese advance on Tehan aims, firstly, to threaten Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi Province, south of Tehan, and, secondly, to relieve the Japanese troops. now surrounded in ihe hills, west of Tehan.
Taking advantage of the full moon, Chinese and Japanese air forces are resorting to night raids.
While Chinese aircraft last night heavily bombed Japanese warships on the Yangtze River, above Kiukiang, Hengyang, a commercial city in south Hunan Province, on the Canton-Hankow Railway, spent hectic night when it was raided four times by Japanese aeroplanes, it was said.
The visitors bombed the aerodrome, the railway station and the city itself, Chinese reports declared.
Anti-aircraft fire, the reports added, brought down four Japanese bombers, three of which were stated to have been located this morning.
The Chinese, it was revealed here, lost one pursuit plane.
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