Raided last week were Changteh, 'Yiyang, and) Ningsiang, in Hunan where' large Chinese concentrations of men and material were sighted, 'Meantime, Japanese army. aircraft continued "vigorous attacks upon nowly-constructed Chinese military eilablishments near Pingkiang, the' spokesman claimed.
At 2 o'clock on Sunday, a group of 16 Japanese bombers swooped down, upon newly erected barracks housing Chinese troops estimated at atween 71000 to 8,000 men in that sector, he said, With the conclusion of mopping up operations along the eastern bank of the Pearl River delta, Japanese troops in South China were gradually extending the territory in their control westward, the spokesman revealed. Army aircraft were playing a major bart in these new operations, he said.
Kowkong, important point on the West River, 50 kilometres south-west of Canton," the spokesman declared, had been occupied by Japanese forces 2 o'clock on Saturday' afternoon following street fighting lasting for most three hours.
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