Referring t0 the situation im the Kashan area, the communique claimed that the Kataoka, Kozakai and other units occupied Kashan at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The attacking soldiers were said to be hanging on the flanks of retreating troops in that sector. Reporting oyer-whelming victories of Japanese forces in various sectors on the outskirts of Shanghai, the military authorities announced that the Oka-more, Hasegawa, Kanda and other detachments cut the railway near Tienfuan along the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, 12 kilometres from Quinsan, yesterday morning. They are now pressing Chinese troops i ihe direction of Quinsan after having advanced northwards {ror Wuchiangtan Friday, the communique concluded.
Japanese naval air units cooperated actively with land forces yesterday in damaging ata on Chinese positions, stated a cormunique released at 6 o'clock yesterday evening by the Japanese Fleet headquarters. The same air units, the communique added, yesterday afternoon hotly pursued Chinese retreat-inj from Taitsang, Quinsan and Kating toward Soochow, and inflicted heavy losses. Other naval planes raided Chinese lines in the Soochow sector, the communique stated.
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