uy)n Nanning. City Japanese Claim Successes in Attacks in Three Areas; Lanchow Severely Bombed in Big Raid Chungking, Dec. 28.
TONE of the Japanese soldiers at present in Nanning will be allowed to escape, but the time for the Chinese attack on Nanning city has not arrived," declared the Chinese military spokesman here today.
"The spokesman emphasized the importance of the occupation of Kunlunkwan pass by Chinese forces, who, he said, were withholding their attack until a suitable time. to Japanese reports that Chinese forces were attempting to cut Yangtze river communications, the spokesman said whether the Chinese were doing it, or whether the Chinese were capable of doing it, would be proved by future developments. He claimed, however, that Chinese batteries along the Yangtze river Were sinking an average of two Japanese warships every week.
Reuter. army spokesman at press conference divulged matter of a joint com: for details regarding the effects of these campaigns, the army naval nen stated that they had certain information but, inasmuch as the full results must be correlated, they could not divulge anything at the moment.
Regarding the operations against n it was said that for three rom December 26 to 28, in-naval and army air forces had.
joint movements on a large scale against a point far inland and the results achieved indicated anni-dilating losses on the largest Chinese im on the Red Route. The oper: ions in the south-east were successfully executed, while the onslaught for in a drive along the railway line was once still underway in the form of a northward movement of the Japanese forces.
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