After breaking through the outer defences of 150,000 Japanese troops in the plains in the vicinity of Tsao-yang, east of Siangyang, Chinese forces yesterday launched an assault on the last line of defence held by the Japanese, according to Chinese reports reaching here today.
Chinese units operating along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, in the Japanese rear, are said to have occupied Wushengkwan and Mingkan, two strategic points on the railway, north of Hankow, while a strong Chinese column is at present storming Sinyang.
In an interview, General Li Tsung-jen, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese forces in the Han River London, May 12.
During last night and early this morning the aerodrome of Rotierdam, already damaged on Friday, was subjected to the heaviest bombardment of the war, it is authoritatively learned here today. The aerodrome, it is stated, was left ablaze after a series of raids lasting nearly six hours, during which several hundred high-explosive bombs were dropped.
Wave after wave of bombers of the Royal Air Force registered direct hits on hangars on the airfield and a group of buildings in the northeast corner of. the aerodrome.
When the last British raiders flew off in the early hours of the morning fires were reging in all parts, and through drifting smoke 24 aircraft could be seen blazing fiercely. No British losses were sustained, it
of [n night's attacks by the Royal is added.
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Air Force on enemy concentrations between the Rhine and Meuse. At the time of the attacks strong enemy forces were advancing across the Rhine towards the Dutch frontier. Hits were obtained on a bridge over the Rhine near Wesel and on a line of traffic at its approaches. The enemy's advance was further hampered by a series of operations in which bombs were seen to hit important railway and road junctions and bridges at Tildekerke, Geldern. Rees and Goch.—Reuter. valley, declared the Chinese High Command, anticipating a Japanese drive towards Siangyang, had concentrated large forces in outside areas, awaiting the arrival of Japanese forces in the area east of Siangyang, before closing in for an encirclement movement.
In the early stages of the battle, the Chinese only employed small units against the Japanese advance.
In south Anhwei, the Chinese have recaptured Fanchang, on the south bank of the Yangtze River above Wuhu, states a Chinese field dispatch received here today.
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