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In the meantime, Chinese dispatches say, the Japanese are massing troops. at Mahweiling on the railway in preparation for a push southward along the line, in the event that they succeed in breaking through the Chinese right wing on the road to Singtze.
No significance is given to the fall of Matouchen by Chinese military authorities, who say that the village itself in the foothills is of no strategic importance. They point out that the Chinese fortifications are located in the hills west of Matouchen. Japanese warships and aeroplanes continue to bombard the forts there and also at Wusueh across the Yangtze River.
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