Since the start of Japanese general onslaughts early yesterday morning. against Chinese "troops in northwestern Kiangsi, the lightning speed with which the Japanese detachments have pressed on the Chinese, " has brought both forces to an imminent impact.
South of Fengsin, several Japanese detachments are attacking six or seven divisions, composed of Yunnan troops, under ihe command of Gen. Lu Han, which were reinforced from the areas of Changsha immediately following the fall of Nanchang, and have since suffered a series of reverses at the hands of the Japanese forces. The Chiness main forces in defence of Kiangsi which are. st tioned around Kaoan, are a cornbin tion of 15 oF 16 divisions under Gen, Lo Cho-ying and several divisions of mixed troops, and, being camp tive crack units, are expected offer resistance.
In the areas south of Nanchang, the Chinese first lines consist of three or four divisions of central and provineial troops, with a further several divisions of Central Army. troops now being rushed to the first Unes in' view of the! Japanese drive. Though these areas originally be-fonged to the oth War Zone, they have since the fall of Nanchang been included in the Srd War Zone, from which reinforcements were despatched, the present boundary of the two zones being a line run-hing through Hankow.
Crack Japanese naval alr units yesterday afternoon, braving thick banks of clouds, flew over the Chin River in north-western "Kiangsi, and bombed Kaoan and Nanl-iao on the waterway, and thus cut off the retreat of the Chinese troops in the
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