In cooperation with army. even Japanese detachments he urea north-west of Tehanie Chunulking forces and captured their bases at Nantsinkwan and Titzayen in a two-day campu forced the Japanese to retreat and eave the island, which had. been used by the Japanese as an air base for raids on' Kwangsi and Yunnan cities.
'On' the contract China front, the! spokesman "said. Chinese forces) attacked Tientzepu, south-west Tehang, and recaptured It.
Ho asserted that there was ap. proximately one division of Japanes0 troops in the Tehang area.
Asked to comment on rumours that the Japanese were evacuating Tehang, the spokesman said there were contradictory, signs—Ares inside the eily appeared to indicate that the Japanese were preparing to evacuate but the fact that Japanese troops had. been launching attacks} in the vicinity of Tchang, with Tehan as the base, seemed to indicate the Japanese intention to hold the port The North China front,—th spokesman concluded had been very quiet for _many months. No note-Worthy action had taken place, except in two small points in Shantung and south-western Shansi—Reuter.
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