Chungking, Sept. 27.
Chinese forces in North Hunan. have abandoned their positions. the south bank of the. Sintsiang River, following "the. landing' of Japanese troops. on "the cast shore of' the Tunating Take in Ue Chic hose rear, according to. a Chinese dispatch received here" today.
The Chinese are said to have withdrawn to the south, and "are Feported at present to be holding. a me which runs from" Slangying eastward to Palshui Station, on the Canton-Hankow Railway.
Both sides, the dispatch con temporary slackening of the Japan-
"At the same time, the dispatch concludes, Chinese, "forces east of] the railway, in the vicinity of Sinshih and' Changloh, are attacking the Japanese flank, in an attempt to slow down the Japanese! advance' to the south—Reuter,
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