Chungking, Sept. 22.
The reported recapture by Chinese forces of Tungchen, a strategic highway city on the Hunan-Hupeh border, given prominence by the news: Papers ere this morning.
Chinese dispatches claim that Chinese forces begin a three-column attack on Tungchen on September }20, occupying the city shortly after midnight. The Japanese garrison, they add, is retreating towards the north-west.
Chinese circles regard the occupa {ion of Tungchen as particularly important in view of the present Japanese operations in north-western Kiangsi and north Hunan, where, according to Chinese field dispatches received here today heavy fighting is continuing.
Chinese forces in north-western Kiangsi, they add, are at present resisting the Japanese westward od-vance in the vicinity of Kaoan, while Chinese troops in north Hunan are opposing the southward thrust of the Japanese forces along the north bank of the Sintsiang River.
Severe fighting is said to have been progressing on both fronts since September 18—Reuter.
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