The Archive · 1939

Chinese Retreat Southward

"Tokyo, Mat. 29.

Driven from Nanchang Chinese forces were fleeing from Fengcheng, 60 kilometres south of the Kiangel capital, toward Linkiang, also known as. Tsingklang, 40 kilometres couth-west of Fengcheng, along the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway, Japanese aerial observations at 4 o'clock terday afternoon revealed, feld dis patches reaching here today said, These photographs were Bridges along the Chekiang Railway were being blown up and tracks removed by the Chinese In an attempt to check the Japanese pursull, the report stated, Chinese troops were resorting to. oats as well og overland routes In retreating from Nanchang.

The Chinese troops, which totalled 2 divisions in the Nanchang and Wuning Sectors, left 3,200 dead while 1400 others were taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Nanchang rretor alone, the reports stated—Domel.

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