Simultaneously, the other column. advancing from Tanchiatou, south of Chenchiahang, attempted to push southward with a view also to reaching the Tsoumatang Creek, about 1,000 metres further south. They failed to reach even their first objective, namely the village of Yuehkungmiao, about midway to the creek, Here again the enemy was thrown back after suffering very heavy losses, the spokesman said.
With the trenches held by the Chinese all destroyed and the areas rendered untenable as the result of the combined attack by the two Japanese columns and intense bombing and shelling, Chinese troops finally abandoned their former positions at Mengchiache and withdrew to a position east of Siao Nanziang. A part of the Japanese force in the sector was reported to have been diverted to advance southward with the west end of the Tsoumatang as its objective, according to the spokesman.
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