With the capture of Cheng-kang shu, strategic position eight kilometres northwest of Mount Nanhsiang, about 145 p.m, on Thursday, flying detachments that captured Tsengcheng on Wednesday morning were 32 kin, east of the City of Rams and only 20 kin. from the Chinese pillbox positions a stone's throw from the Kwangtung capital, Domei reports from the southern front claimed. second in command, said the Chinese spokesman at the press conference here last night.
He further stated that the Japanese invaders comprised the 114th Divisions, totalling 42,000 men.
"he spokesman reiterated that the main Japanese push westward from Waichow had still not begun, and he denied reports that the Japanese already occupied Tsangshing, on the Poklo-Canton Railway, and Sheklung, 35 miles from Canton.
He declared that guerilla units were at present forming in the districts northeast and southwest of Father Jacquinot Successful
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