Eighteenth Annual Meeting to Open To-day longed and intense shelling and bombing from the air, there is not a single house standing at Yanghang, the spokesman said.
The Chinese counter-attack on Saturday night succeeded in driving the. Japanese back a short distance. but the arrival of enemy reinforcements enabled them to enter the village once more, the spokesman said. Thus the fortunes of war fluctuated throughout Saturday night and yesterday morning. According to military communique, Chinese troops were in possession of the village at day-break yesterday morning.
Recounting the severe fighting at the village during the past few days, the spokesman said it was estimated that more than 100 guns were brought into action by the Japanese and shelled the Chinese line from Yanghang to Chuichiapang. In spite of the intense bombardment, the Chinese firmly held their line, but at a point south-east of Chuichiapang the Japanese broke through and med the right flank of the Chinese Ime on Saturday at noon.
Evidently further reinforced, the Japanese pushed forward with great vigour in the rear of the Chinese line, thus making the position of the Chinese untenable, the spokesman said,
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