SIMULTANEOUS big push Chungking, Nov, 29. in northwest, central and south China by the Japanese is believed to be imminent, according to information which has reached reliable Chinese circles here.
Chinese reports state that the Japanese are massing troops in the vicinity of Hankow, Canton and Taiyuan for a simultaneous push into Shensi, north-west Hunan, in central China, and Kwangsi, in south China. the Sinyang area, Maping and A major drive, it Is said, will be Wushengkwan were recaptured, the made probably in Kwangsi, where the Jspokesman continued, and the Chi-Japanese will push westward, towards nese forces reached Liuliang, on the Yunnan, via Kweilin and Paisheh. way to Sinyang.
The Japanese big. push, Chinese circles believe, will start ina month's Japanese Checked time as the Japanese hope to reach Near Canton, Japanese re-inforce-Yunnan before March, when the ments advancing along the Canton-malaria season, which begins in the Samshui Railway in the direction of Fegion,. will vender military opera~ /Kaoyao were checked at Kingli, 20 tions almost impossible. kilometres to the west of Samshui, Little Movement In Hunan while another column was halted near Kwangan, 12 kilometres to the, The Sino-Japanese positions on the west of Samshui, the spokesman various fronts are given in the latest stated. {Chinese military despatches received 'At the south end of the Canton-her }Kowloon Railway, where the Japan-'On the Hunan front, the Chinese ese forces launched an offensive, and' Japanese forces are said to be they are said to have lost heavily in opposing each other ten. miles south the course of three days" fighting.
Yochow, between Matang and The spokesman estimated the Yungehiawan, Only, skirmishes are strength of the Japanese forces stated to be going on at present in JAghting in South China at about this area, Chinese patrols are alleged '80,000 men, with a further 50,000 to have reached a point seven miles reserves held in readiness at For-south of Yochow.
'Due to the fall of the Tungting 'These, he stated, citing information Lake water level, Japanese warships obtained by the' Chinese military are reported to have withdrawn to authorities, might go to Canton it points eastward of Yochow. necessary, or be used in Fukien Strong Chinese detachments are said to be constantly raiding Japanese Puchi and Tungchen, on the Canton-Reports indicated that the Japanese might halt their "extensive positions in the vicinity of Hsienning, Hankow Railway, and also along the operations" in South China in order Hupeh-furlan highway, east' of to concentrate their main forces for Yochow. an attack in the North-west, where, On the Canton front, the Chinese it was considered, there was one and Japanese are reporied to be fac~ possible route along which the ing each other in. the vicinity of Japanese might advance.
Matang, Makou and Tangkang, in the This, the spokesman stated, was: vicinity of Samshui, on the West via" Wuyuan, Ningwu, and Ningsia, River, while the opposing forces cast fand thence " to Hangchow, in the of the Canton-Hankow Railway "are north-west of Kansu province. stated to be facing each other in the Another force, he said, might pro-vicinity of Shenkang, seven miles ceed via Paoching, and take Feng-south of Tsunghus.—Reuter, Ungtu, and then Sian and Lanchow. Both these moves, the spokesman Gueritias Punished explained, would be designed com-Peiping, Nov. 29. pletely to cut off communications Enlarging the scope of their mop-with Russia, ping-up operations to include districts Chinese Evacuate Tsunghua far away from the main routes of Chinese forces' north of Canton and communication, Japanese detachments, east of the Canton-Hankow Railway. were scattering Chinese guerillas have evacuated Tsunghua and are at and bandits with heavy losses, Japan-present forming a new line north ese military authorities here declared Tsunghua. today.
This message is contained in a Chinese positions at Yanghotun, 22 Chinese field dispatch received here kilometres from Sutsien, key town on {today from Oongyuan northeast of the Grand Canal in north-western Kiangsu, fell to the Japanese last The Chinese withdrawal, says the Saturday. Six. thousand Chinese dispatch, was a result of a vigorous troops Med, leaving more than 1,000 Japanese offensive supported by ait-dead, according to field dispatches! feraft-and mechanized units—Reuter. received here.
Four hundred Chinese entrenched Chines Pitter Into Shansi at Yinchuang, two kilometres south of
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