Chungking, May 17.
Chinese military circles ridicule Japanese claims of fighting in North Hupeh, according to a Chinese message received here.
Commenting on the Japanese report that Chinese troops under the command of Gen. Tang En-po had been. entrapped by the Japanese, a Chinese military spokesman stated today that when Japanese forces moved northward towards Tangho, a Chinese any corps commanded by General Tang En-po, pushed southward from Nanyang and forced the Japanese to th draw to the south.
The Japanese, it is further pointed t, claimed that General Ting Chien-fan, brigade commander, had been captured by the Japanese in North Kiangsi, but as a matter of fact, the Chinese report continues, General Ting Chien-fan is at present com-anding troops at the front, while s rank is that of a vice-brigade Never se to consider the throne the bulwark of our democratic institutions and constitu-commander and not of a brigade commander.—Reuter,
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