Tokyo, Feb. 6.
In capturing Pingyang last week, a big step was taken by Japanese forces in cutting off all supply routes leading to the Chungking Government, a field dispatch reaching here said.
The message pointed out that Pingyang, a Chinese base from which Chinese hoped to advance to recapture Nanning, was at the junction of two supply routes. One was from French Indo-China to Liuchow and Kweilin via Nanning, and the other from Lui-chow peninsula to the interior of China.
In addition, the dispatch said, Pingyang had a population of 30,000 people and was in the centre of the agriculture district of Kwangsi province.—Domei,
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