Japanese troops on Friday night completed the occupation of Keshing, the southern extremity of the rapidly crumbling "Hindenburg Line", a Japanese military spokesman claimed at the morning press conference yesterday.
With concerted dawn attacks launched from the north and the east, the Chinese defenders rapidly fell back. the officer added.
Apparently fearing io have their retreat west, along the Grand Canal, cut off, because of the rapid progress made by the northern Japanese wing. the Chinese retreated "in great haste", the spokesman asserted.
Meanwhile. a "floating" wing, riding high in commandeered motor sampans and junks, captured Nanzing near the southern shore of Lake Taihu. on Friday noon, according to the spokesman This unit, he added, moved upon Nanzing dram Pingwang through creeks and lakes,
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