Chungking, Feb, 5. (CHINESE forces in southern Kwangsi_ are launching counter-XU attacks in an effort to turn back the Japanese drive from manning, according to a despatch received from Chinese sources here, In an endeavour to turn the Japanese right flank, Chinese forces southeast of Pingyang are stated to be exerting. pressure on a Japanese column which crossed the. Vu River and was pushing northward from Yungshun. south bank of the Vu River cast recaptured.
The Japanese column which reached Pingyang, 1s now said to have been driven back by the Chinese to a point in the vicinity of Lungyu, south of Pingyang. Fighting is reported to be in progress along. the "highway Detween Nanning and—Yamchow, where the Chinese torves claim that the town of Lapeh on the highway has been recaptured—Reuter,
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