"Aller sunset, however, under cover fof a heavy fog us well as a severe naval bombardment, the Japanese succeeded in effecting a landing.
"tu the meantime, 40 Japanese warships bombarded the peninsula south of Fancheng, attacking " point from three sides.
"Under cover of a smoke screen, Japanese troops from warships effected inding, and on the following morn~
Peking, Nov, 17, Eneircling operations by which Japanese forces hope to trap 12,500 Communist troops of the 120th Division of the Chinese 18th Group Army in North China were reported today to be making rapid. progress.
A field dispatch from the northwestern Hopel province where the operation was taking place stated that all Japanese detachments assigned to this take had surrounded the area where the Chinese troops were believed to be and were closing in upon them.
Japanese army authorities in North China pointed out today that this manquvre has @ bearing on the future operations of Chinese Communists, "Tf it is successful, they said, the 12,500 Communist troops in. the mountainous region will lose their base for carrying on guerilla warfare in North China—Domei,
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