About 2,000 Japanese Troops, Supported by Tanks And Planes, Launch Attack on Wutang Chungking, Feb. 26.
URING the past week, the Japanese have launched attacks west and northeast of Nanning, it at present, are unlikely to result, the nature of diversions, which, major operations, according to the latest Chinese field dispatches from the southern Kwangsi front received here today, Japanese forces west of Nanni if, it is recalled, pushed westward' on February 22, reaching as far west as Chuli, southwest of Following a Chinese counte tack, however, it is stated, the Jo anese column withdrew to the southeast, in the direction of Tatang, on the main highway south of Nanning, Japanese troops at Santang, ten ites northeast of Nanning, on the niorning of February 24 launched an tack against Chinese positions tang, seventeen miles northeast of Nanning, the dispatches continue.
Approximately 2,000 Japanese troops are said to have taken part in the fillock, supported by field—guns, twelve tanks and nine warplanes. They are reported to have employed wing movements, in_an attempt. to the Chinese positions. Fight ing slowed down after an engage ment lusting 24 hours. it added.
The Chinexe claim to have destroy ed eight tanks and two feld- guns.
the battle, On the highway between Nanning. and Yamehow, the dispatches declare,
2 Iaunehed vigorous attacks Fapaness forces on February 24 andi the Chinese troops which cut the highway south of Nanning, in the vieinily of Tatang and Sioten Fighting ix said to be Koiny 0 present in the area,
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