On Wednesday; Important Successes Claimed Chungking, May 16.
Chinese forces captured Changtaikwan, Japanese base on the Pinhan Railway, yesterday noon, a Chinese High Command communique claims.
"The Nanyang to Kashan also the Nanyang to Sinyang high' now cleared of Japanese troops," the statement says. "The Chinese captured—Tanghsiencheng, point on the highway between Siangyang and Huayuan.
"On the highway between Hankow and Ichang the Chinese are attacking Tienmencheng. About 40,000 Japanese troops are at present surrounded in the vicinity of Tsaoyang, with the Chinese steadily closing in. The Japanese rushed two brigades from points on the lower Yangtze River to reinforce the Japanese surrounded north-west of Hankow.
"General Itagaki, Chief-of-Staff of ihe Japanese forces in China, is reported to have arrived in Hankow io personally direct operations in view of the desperate situation of the Japanese there."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.