Fast Torpedo Boats Also Above Kiukiang Tokyo, July 5.
Half a dozen Chinese mine layers Still are operating on the Yangtze between Hankow and Kiukiang, was estimated in reports received here today from Japanese navál officers.
More than a dozen high speed more torpedo boats capable of going 5 miles an hour, recently imported from abroad, also are active upstream from Kiukiang, the reports said.
It was reported that all foreign vessels have been withdrawn from Kiukiang with the exception of one British gunboat, which is standing by.
Chinese troops which defended Hukow consisted of the 53rd, 57th and Sith Divisions, the reports said. The first two divisions were Central Gov ernment troops under the direct con-rol of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek—Domet
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