Tsengkia, Mar. 29.
Intercepted by two Japanese detachments, 700 Chinese attempting to escape from an encircling net in the Nanchang area by retreating southward finally abandoned the effort and surrendered today.
One Japanese detachment which took part in the assault on Nane! killed 3,000 Chinese, field dispatches claimed. This unit captured 2,000 men, including 30 officers, and eight mountain guns, two heavy guns, four trucks, 5,000 bags of provisions, a large number of Czech machine guns d rifles and a large amount of tension, British circles here said today that Japan was believed to be provoking incidents in Tientsin as a pretext for encroaching upon or taking over the foreign concessions.—United Press.
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