Tokyo, Sept. 27.
Japanese forces at "midnight on. September 25. reached a point 40 kdllometres north of Changsha, capltal of Hunan, according to ® Japan-fled dspatah received' "here 'Two Japanese detachments, it declares, kept up their drive last night to' the south. along the Canton-Hankow Railway, and occupied a strategically important point on the railway, 40 kilometres north of! Changsha, at midnight, They are) then said to have continued their; push southward.
Another Japanese feld dispatch River on the morning of September 26, launched a general attack the second Chinese defence line, two kilometres to the south of the Mi River, The Japanese are said to have dislodged the Chinese troops from their strongly established positions after two hours of bitter Aghting.
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