The Archive · 1940

Nanking Region Said Surrounded Chungking Reports Battles

In Central Anhwei; 68 — Planes Raig Chungking

Chungking, Sept. 18.

Reports from' the Kiangsu-Anhwei border last night claimed that Chinese forces were Surrounding the Nanking region, and that a large number of japanese troops is now engaged in trying to "remove this threat to the seat of the Wang Ching-wei regime."

The "expeditionary force," as the troops were called here, is under' the command of the Minister of Pacification, Jen Yuàn-taó.

Fighting has broken out at Tien-chang and Laian, in central Anhwer.

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