Chungking, Dec, 19, 'The Chinese started an offensive in the region of Yochow, according to the "Ta Kung Pao' today. The Chinese have advanced as far as six kilometres from Yochow, the report [claims which adds that the Japanese are fortifying their defence positions In and outside Yochow. The "Ta Kung Pao" opines that the number Japanese at Yochow is too small to resist the Chinese so that they will have cither to retreat or to receive feinforements within the next few Further reports speak of attacks by Chinese irregulars on Hwangchow, least of Hankow. Details are lacking [but the Chinese claim that the irregulars reached the vicinity of the town and that the Japanese had to ask for reinforcements.
The Japanese troop concentrations lon the West River, west of Canton, °VerY fare giving more freedom of action the Chinese north and east of the /Kwangtung capital.
The expected Japanese push into Kwangsi province has not yet taken place, the only indication of such in-Htentions being Japanese troop concentrations near Samshul.—Trans-
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