Said Encircled, Near Tsaoyang Chungking, May 11.
News from Europe, despite its importance, is overshadowed here by the stream of feld dispatches pouring in from the North Hupeh-South Honan front claiming a big Chinese victory in the area east of Siangyang and Fancheng.
These reports High Command cleverly concealed the movements of Chinese troops in the early stages of the battle, in which the Japanese converged on Siangyang in four, columns, parently they hoped to trap the Chinese army by wing movements closing in from the noríh from Sinyang, in southern Honan, anu atom me south from Cnungisiang, along the east bank of the Han River.
When the Japanese columns effected-a junction in area east of Siangyang they were still unable to locate the main strength of the Chinese army, whose wing columns are reported to have suddenly enveloped the Japanese columns. The Chinese forces launched a general offensive at midnight on Thurs-
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