Japanese army forces early yester-Gay were landed on the banks of the Yangtze River at two poms north of Yocaow, siresegie strongnoid cum-manding the <pproach to Tungting Lake, a communique issued by the headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Force to Central China yesterday afternoon claimed.
One force, the announcement sid, straddled ihe river near Linsiang, about 30 kilometres north-east of Yochow, while the other, landed in the vicinity of Chenglengían. eight kilo-me.res below Yochow on the Yangtze, were attacking Chinese troops enirenched in the city.
The latter detachment was cocper: ting with troops marching upon Yochow along the Canton-Hankow railway, according to the communique.
Meantime, dispatches from Domei correspondents with the Japanese column moving southward slong the Canton-Hankow railway said the Japanese forces were now looking down upon Yochow from newly-occupied heights near the city.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, he reports said, the Japanese were in control of " line extending from Kaochiao to Meichihshih.
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