After breaking through the outer Jéetences of 180,000 Japanese troops the plains in the vicinity of Tsa0- yung, east of Siangyang, Chinese Torces yesterday launched an assault fon the last line of defence held by the Japanese, according to Chinese reports reaching here today.
Chinese units operating along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, in the Japanese rear, are said to have ce: Cupied Wushengkwan and Mingkan, {wo strategic points on the railway) north of Hankow, while a stra [Chinese column is at present storm= Ing Sinyang.
fu an interview, General Li Tsung-jons "Commander-In-Chief of" the Chinese forces in. the Hon River alley, declared the Chinese High Comipand, anticipating a Japanese férive towards Stangyang, had confeentrated large forces in outside Sreas, awaiting the arrival of Jo fse forces in the area cast of Siang-Fang, before closing in for an encirthe early stages of the battle the' Chinese only" employed small units against the Japanese advance.
in south Anhvel, the Chinese have recaptured Fanchang, onthe south Bank of the Yangtze. River above Wahu, states a. Chinese field. dispatch received Here today.
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