Chinese attempts to retake Hangchow, widely advertised in the vernal cular press, had consisted up to yesterday in an attempted landing from twe sampans sent across the Chientang River, a Japanese military spokesman stated at yesterday evening's press conference.
"Needless to state, the attack was repulsed. None of the soldiers on the sampans managed to return to the other shore," the spokesman declared, Basing his statement on the report of an officer who had returned from ihe lakeside city in the afternoon, the spokesman declared that dwellings, famous temples and other places of historical value were intact, All officials and important personages under the Kuomintang regime had fled, taking with them all party documents,
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