Chungking, Feb. 1.
The possibility of an early outbreak! of major fighting in the Nanning area was expressed by the Chinese military spokesman today in the course ofan interview on the Sino-Japanese military situation, The Japanese, he said, were pouring Felnforcements into south Kwangs}, with the result that the Japanese forces now massed between ihe seacoast and Nanning totalled three and a halt divisions.
Part of the Japanese forces on the highway north-east of Nanning, the spokesman continued, were presently moving eastward, apparently with the {dea of executing a flanking move-mont ayainst the Chinese troops ad-_ Vaneing towards Nanning from Ping-ang.
Tu reply to a question, the spokesman said there were mo Japanese troops at present at Lungchow, near the Prench Indo-China border north of Chengankwan, Referring to the Aghtiog in west Suiyuan, he stated that the Chinese forees at Wuyuan were meeting the Japanese offensive with counter-at-lucks, One Chinese column, he asserted, was facing the Japanese on the highway east of Wuyuan, while another column. was advancing on Paotow from the north-west, 'Chinese units on the south' bank of the Yellow River are said to be enaging a Japanese column _which crossed the Yellow River recently.
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