Hankow, Aug, 31. Gemas fighting continues on both banks of the Yangtze, 7 according to a Chinese military communique. The Japanese are c'zimed to have been repulsed in attacks on Chinese tions two miles west of Juichang and also on the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway south of Kiukiang.
In the Juichang sector, the communique asserts, the Japanese suffered two to three thousand casualties, while on the railway they left behind large quantities of ammunition and 30 dead.
The Chinese positions south of Juichang are said to be still intact despite repeated Japanese assaults-——Reuter.
Singtze, Aug. 31.
Their retreat cut off by the advance of Japanese columns conyerging from two directions upon Tehan, the strategically important town halfway between Kiukiang and Nanchang along the Nanzing railway, 200,000 Chinese troops defending the Lushan [mountains today were faced with annihilation.
Advancing south from Juichang, a Japanese column today had successfully outflanked the Chinese fortifications at Maanshan, its vanguards reaching Paiyunshan' and Chichashan, south of Mmshan, approximately halfway between Juichang and Tehan.
Operating out of Singtze, other Japanese units were marching along the Hehan highway through narrow passes between Lushan and Tung-kuling mountains—Domei.
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