Crossing the Siu River last Tuesday morning in a period of three hours, two Japanese motorized units attacked the Chinese from the rear, Refuelled by Japanese Army planes, they advanced 100 kilometres without a Test and reached the Kan River bank in ce-operation with infantry and engineering detachments at 9 o'clock this morning. A vanguard unit started its drive on Nanchang from the sector southeast of Anyi, 40 kilometres northwest of Nanchang, last Thursday afternoon.
Speeding along the military highway from Fengsin, 60 kilometres west of Nanchang, early yesterday morning, the unit arrived at a pair 15 kilometers southwest of Nanchan ate last night and then turned north.
Capture of Nanchang woul rupture the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway, which is one of the two remaining arms supely arteries for the Kuomintang command. Supplies to the Chinese third war zone south of the Chientang River in Chekiang Province would be cut off. Chinese troops in this sector would be isolated if Nanchang fell to the Japanese. It would split the Chinese armies of the ninth "war zone under the command o?
Gen. Hsueh Yueh which have bec" spread over Kiangsi and Hunan Prov inces, These forces are among strongest in the feld.
Chinese deployed in areas neighbouring the Japanese-occupied zone in Hunan Province would be threaten' if the Japanese advanced toward Changsha along the Chekiang-Kiangsi Bisection of the ninth war
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