Tt ig stated that during recent weeks the Japanese have been bringing "heavy "reinforcements to" the Hankow tea, pouring them Into Yor chow for. the Hunan' drive, While the total number of Japa se troops participating in this drive cannot yet be ascertained, a Chinese field despatch states that one Japanese column, which crossed the Sin-{slang ver. in the vicinity of Keng Kou, totalled 4,000 men. It is added that Japanese' "reinforcements "con tinue to arrive, following the vanguards moving southward.
Another column of Japanese effect~ "landings in motor-boats © at Shanchingshan, near the southern tip of Lotus Leat Lake opposite Ying tion, A'third Japanese column has reached Shakang.
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