At 1.45 am. on Monday the base and approximately six inches of sprayed out shell fell in Tifeng Road just south of Bubbling Well Road, making a one inch dent in the asphalt road surface. It fell on the east side of the road, the only direction, in view of a three-storey house on that side, from which it could not have come was the east. It fell simultaneously with the flight of a Chinese plane eastward directly over the spot. Conveyed by a foreign sergeant of Bubbling Well Police station to the Brigade H.Q. in Tifeng Road, it was believed to be a portion of a gas shell, traces resembling mustard being found. Neutralizing precautions were immediately taken for the sergeant who had handled it.
Continuing their general offensive, launched on Saturday, the Japanese troops yesterday morning crossed Tsaomatang Creek at a point between Tazang and Nanziang, the head-
FREET fighting was in progress in the shell-scarred village of Tazang yesterday morning the Japanese military spokesman Japanese forces were at that time, he said, quarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Force announced yesterday.
After fording the creek under heavy fire, the communique added, the Japanese units continued to press west and southward. The creek runs east to west, passing through Kiangwan, Tazang and Nanziang.
Tazang BomVarded Other Japanese units, meanwhile, continued to subject the Chinese posi tions in Tazang to a vigorous bombardment, with the Chinese offering stiff resistance on Sunday night.
Continuing its operations launched on Sunday, the Tanigawa detachment opened an attack on the Chinese troops in Kiangwan from the Tien-lose area and positions south of the Kiangwan Race Course, the communique revealed.
In their frontal attack on Sunday night on the Chinese line one kilometre north of the Tazang-Nanziang highway, the Japanese lost at least, 1,000 men killed and hundreds more wounded, according to information from Chinese military circles.
The Japanese used more than 30 tanks in their onslaught, but by dawn they were no nearer to their immediate objective, the village of Tazang, than when they started out early on Sunday evening.
Another theatre of vigorous activities last night was in the vicinity of Mengchiache, about four kilometres north-east of Nanziang, where the Chinese are holding a line on the west bank of a creek running at right angles with Wentsaopang.
Sorties Repulsed Here, several sorties were attempted by the Japanese forces but each of them was successfully frustrated. A little to the east of Mengchiache, an-Other Japanese unit was checked in their advance from Tanchiache to Yuehkungtang.
In the Kwangfu sector, the Japanese threw about 2,000 men into action on Sunday night and before dawn yesterday morning. They were driven back.
Fighting at Kiangwan and Chapei last night was of a desultory nature, having no immediate bearing on the war situation as a whole, according to Chinese reports, Intelligence reports received in Chinese military circles stated that
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