Hankow, May 26.
\HE first coherent account from Chinese sources of the last days of Hsuchowfu before the Chinese withdrawal, as well as details of the Chinese march from Hsuchowfu through the Japanese engirelement to positions west of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, reached Hankow today with the arrival of eighteen Chinese war correspondents, All these correspondents withdrew from Hsuchowfu together with the troops commanded by General Tang En-po, who were the last to leave the junction city.
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General Tang. Bavpo's troops ware ordered to tattle ty Hesetonde 1 over the witharaval of the Chinese forces, "hey eft the elty""on Bay Rana arrived ab owenakow ftstlonan, near tie "Peiping-Han-Now Rallwey, yettrday after having, Into words of me correspondent fuccosfllyaccompllahed tele mis tions since not only Chee infantry Sluis bul mechanised and artillery tins alo supeeeded tu escaping 1
'The situation at eiuehowsu, the comreipondante nusried, beesve tel Sat" on arty' 13" when" shiengkou Sauony on the Eunghal alway be-Teer Hoacheeds and Tung, wee Feoched by the Japanese, Terne Bombardment Following the capture of the sta~ tion, Japanese aircraft' subjected Hsuchowfu and the vicinity to a terrific bombardment in order to estray the Chinese line of com=
The aerial bombing reached a climax on May 18, when the Japanese employed 400 aeroplanes, to" bomb On the same day, Japanese troops reached Hslachsien and Yanglou, 43 miles from the western suburbs. of Hasuchowfu, and gri the following day the Japanese started a bombardment Hsuchowfu city with heavy guns.
On the night of May 16, the cor respondents continued, Japanese vanguards reached the western suburbs of the city, but General Li Tsung-Jen and General Pal Chung-hsi, th KGwangs! military leaders, continued to direct operations from the Tuan-chia gardens, outside the city, until they evacuated three nights later, The vanguards of General Tang En-po's troops left Hsuchowfu the night of May 16 south-eastward along, the Tientsin-Pukow Railway the direction of Nansuchow, where Japanese troops had already appeared outside the west gate, The next night Chinese troops cerassed the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, heading westward.
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