Chinese troops feeing westward from the Nanchang area along the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway, at 5 o'clock yesterday evening, blew up the Kan river bridge near Changshu chen, ten kilometres north-cast of Linkiang, a town also known as Tsingkiang, Japanese serial scouts reported today.
Meantime, Japanese aircraft con tinued an active chase of retreating Chinese troops. More than 80 freight cars filled with troops were blown yesterday afternoon in the hills east of Linkiang. The area is about 0 kilometres south-west of Nan-sex In Battle chungking, Mar. 30, Heavy losses in the Aghiing to hold off the Japanese onslaught on Nanchang, provincial capital of Kiangsi, were admitted today for the first time in official Chinese reports. One report mentions 20,000 dead, but does not stale how many of these were Japanese.
It Is not possible to ascertain to what extent the Chinese command hus' made preparations to meet further Japanese thrusts in the direstion of Changsha. Informed quarters assert, however, that a large number of Chinese troops are available in the theater of "operations—Trans-
Nanchang Drives Pushed Chungking, Apr. 1.
After their occupation of Nanchang, the Japanese forces have not con-tinted their push to the south slong the Nanchang-Pinghsiang Railway. bul, instead, are concentrating their efforts ina push to the west, according to Chinese reports—Reuter.
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