Tokyo, July 5.
FAPAN's spangled-sun flag today fluttered victoriously, above Hukow, 440 miles up-river on the rain-swollen Yangtze from Shanghai, near where the Anhwei, Hupeh and Karigsi provincial borders meet.
The capture of this strategically. vital town, at the mouth of Poyang Lake, placed the Japanese army 160 miles from Hankow, military capital of China, and within a 100-mile radius from Nanchang, a Chinese munitions and supply centre.
With the seizure of this vital point 15 miles downriver from Kiukiang at 5 o'clock yesterday evening, the Japanese naval and military authorities permitted for the first time the public ion of details on this phase of the march on Hankow.
The operations are regarded by Japanese. experts as the most successful river attack through hostile country in the world's military onnals, Twenty-one days following the almost bloodless occupation of Anking, capital of Anhwei, Japanese! forees have: advanced "70 miles through a heavily-mined waterway, and across slently-fortified riparian} countryside, The Matowehen boom, consisting "of nine large sunken steamers, sise had to be blasted open to provide a channel for the advancing war vessels, Up to yesterday the number of destroyed Chinese mines numbered 256.
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