Hankow, May 15. ANGUINARY combats between groups of 500 to 000 Chinese troops, isolated following the integration" of the defence of the Chi ese Fifth War Zone, and pursuing Japanese troops were fought along the Hupeh-Honan border on Friday and Saturday, field dispatches reaching here today said.
Following the occupation by the Japanese right wing of Sisints a southern Honan town, Japanese troops on Saturday launched a spirit pursuit of 5,000 Chinese troops fleeing to the north, these reports stated, "The Chinese, overtaken by the Japanese, were routed.
On Saturday. afternoon, another ional, methods for these extraordin group of 2,000 Chinese, were sighted south of Sisintsi, within the recently Important Victory occupied area. A fierce engagement, jin which the Chinese, aware of their Chungking, May: doom, fought desperately, was pre-While the Chinese military aul tipitated og Japanese troops attacked. ties refuse to divulge details of the The combat was still going on early fighting in north Hupeh. it is reliably yesterday morning, reported that the Chinese have scored Advancing eastwards from Tsa0~ fan important victory ina well-plan-yang in Hupeh, a Japanese column hed and well-executed counter-offenfon Friday encountered a force of sive, It is stated, however, that the 41,000 Chinese from the 173rd and 198th full' significance of the victory Divisions fleeing in the hills 20 kilo-tinaing to be seen, as fighting is still metres south-west of Sisintsi. progress.
The Chinese were dispersed after Reuter Is informed authoritatively suffering heavy Tosses, the dispatenes that when the Japanese made sudden stated. flank movements early this month, Five hundred Kwangsi troops, en using two wings in an attempt to en= gaged in combat by. the Japanese circle the Chinese forees in the vieing north-west of Sisintsi on Saturday, of Suihsien, the main body. of fled after losing 200 dead, the told the Chinese troops at Tamgho. imreports added. mediately withdrew in two columns. one heading northward towards Nan-Gen, Tang Escapes yang and other going westward to-Gen, Tang En-po, who shared with
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