Tokyo, Mar. 29.
Driven from Nanchang Chinese forces were fleeing from Fengcheng, 30 kilometres south of the Kiangsi capital, toward Linkiang, also known as Tsingkiang, 40 kilometres couth-west of Fengcheng, along the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway, Japanese aerial observations at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon revealed, field dispatches reaching here today said.
Bridges along the Chekiang Railway vere being blown up and track: removed by the Chinese in an attempt to check the Japanese pursuit, the report stated.
Chinese troops were resorting to boats as well as overland routes in is treating from Nanchang.
The Chinese troops, which totalled 20 divisions in the Nanchang and Wuning Sectors, left 3,200 dead while 1,400 others were taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Nanchang rector alone, the reports stated—Domei.
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