Hankow Apr. 29.
Eleven Chinese warplanes, at 1.30 p.m, made an ineffectual attempt to bomb Sinyang, 170 kin. north of Hankow on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, and Ma headquarters reported here to-
Prevented from reaching their objective by an accurate barrage of Japanese anti-aircraft fire, the Chinese planes dropped their bombs on a mountainside and fled to their bases, the reports declared.
Field dispatches stated that one Chinese was killed, but that Japanese interests suffered no damages.
Chinese forces operating south of the Yangtze River, in a sector to the south of the Wuhan district which has been designated by Chungking as the Ninth War District, have begun to feel the effects of a vast encircling movement carried out: by Japanese forees, according to headquarters dispatches reaching here today.
The Japanese steel cordon is tightening, the reports declared and Chinese troops are now trapped in the-mountains in which they sought refuge.
In the Anyi sector northwest of Nanchang, in Kiangsi Province, the reports added, the Japanese forces have succeeded in launching a wide movement.
Fleeing Chinese left more than 500 dead on the field of battle, the reports stated. It was added that large quantities of arms and munitions were captured by the Japanese.—Domei.
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