Repulsed after unsuccessful slaughts on this city, the capi Honan province, in the their much advertised " en-the Chinese 20ih Divisions, under Gen. Ssu hsuan, have retreated to Weir kilometres south of Ki p, where they are massing for re-organization, feld dispatches reaching here today said.
The Chinese troops were said to be suffering a shortage of provisions with many of them wounded, t reports claimed.
Another force of 10,000 Chinese, who established temporary defence works at Changtingtsi, 80 kilometres south of Kaifeng, were dislodged from their position by Japanese forces, Most of them fled westward crossing the new bed of the Yello. River, while some were report have fled to Paitan, south of Chanzyingtsi.
Chinese troops along the Lun Railway, west of junction of the Peiping-Hankow and Lunghai Railways, moved northward on an "April Offensive" movement earlier this month. but were decimated by Japanese forces. Th has resulted in a weakening of the Chinese positions near Loyang, th arts stated Twenty thousand under the command Chinese troop: of Fen southern extremity of Hor have been ordered by Gen, Chiang Kai-shek to move north to Loyang to str positions there. according to informa. tion reaching here.—Domei
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