Shanghai, Apr. 23.
Chinese reports of victories jin the Nenehang area were denied by a military spokesman at the Japanese press conference yesterday. It was true, he stated, that certain redistributions of Japanese forces had taken place in that area. These had been announced on April 9 which seemed to indicate that the Chinese had been rather slow in turning them into Chinese victories.
Actually some points might have been occupied by the Chinese forces after Japanese redistributions had taken place but ay far as the military situation around Nanchang was concerned the Japanese position had been strengthened.
The Chinese ring around Nanchang, capital of Kiangst, has been further tightened, following occupation by the Chinese of a section of the railway immediately north of the city, in the vicinity of Tuchlapu and Wanchlapu, Chinese reports state.
'A Japanese drive southward from Changtze, in south-eastern Shansi, is claimed to have been repulsed after 48 hours of heavy Aghting in mountains north of Kaoping, Fighting i8 said to be going on in the area north-west 6¢ Kaoping and the Chungtio Mountains, in south Shansi, where the Japanese are reported' to have been trapped in the; Vicinity of Yumiao—Reuter.
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