The bulk bf the Chinese forces assigned to this sector, aerial observation indicated, was, however, falling hack en müsse along the Anshih-Wankiafow highway and through the mountains east of Wankiafow, 30 kilometres north-west of Nanchang.
Meantime, Japanese forces operating in the Wuning sector were within ten kilometres of the strategically vital town in north-western Kiangsi, field dispatches indicated.
Held to be indicative of the poor morale of the Chinese in this sector, 650 men, including one captain, allowed themselves to be taken prisoner by the right wing of the Japanese fortes operating against Wuning.
The artillery preparation that preceded the Japanese onslaught in this area took a heavy toll, at least 1.100 Chinese dead being found in the path of the Japanese advance.
he Japanese right wing has so far suffered 16 killed and a score of wounded.
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Unless Palestitie was excluded from that area later in the Correspondence, the British representatives also agree, it must be regarded as having been included in the area in which Great Britain was to recognize and support the independence of the Arabs. lain that, on the proper construction The, British representatives main-
of the Correspondence, Palestine was ju fact excluded from that area. But they agree that the lárguage in which its exclusion was expressed was "not so specific and unmistakable as it was thought to be at the fini The Committee also considered other documents and events to see what light they shed on the meaning or the intention of the Correspondence. The Committee makes it clear that it is beyond the Committee's to pronounce on the proper interpretation of these various state-
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