Outside Tehang, June 12, Only four hours after first storming, the walled town of Tehang, Inst im= portant Chungking stronghold in the Sth War Zone, Japanese forees had ut completely through the town and had advanced, to Wangkiawan,, two kilometres to the northwest of Thong, Foports reaching headquarters here disclosed.
Chungking forces which led to: Wangkiawan are being mopped up by the Japanese forces, the dispatches further revealed, It was meanwhile learned that the detachment to enter Ichang yesterday" was" the Japanese - unit under the command of Major Shigeyuki Sugiura, which stormed the town from the southeast after pieretog the last Chungking defence lines at Palyangyang, two kilometres from the stronghold, All Japanese units which entered. Ichang yesterday: resumed their offend Hive eatly this morning in co-opera tion with Japanese army aircraft, The Chinese lines connecting Liuklatan, Changkiawan and Wangchowkung, three to four kilometres east of Ichang, have been pierced, dis ate hes here said.
OMcers revealed that the strong. hold, of Tehang, as well as its immediate vicinity, have been cleared of enemy. remnants.~-Domei, ble, but the pilot circled low and' proved beyond a doubt that the cities were in Japanese "hands.
Small sections of Shasi appeared have been burned, but the retreat-Ing Chinese troops apparently did not cut the dykes on either side of the Yangtze.
The countryside between Shasi and] Ichang was deserted, while there was sign of shipping in this stretch of the river, Several fires were visible in the countryside around Tehang, but there were no unusual sights in the city, where a cluster of foreign shipping: was seen anchored off the all. installations—Reuter.
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