Hankow, May 20.
Japanese forces which were preparing for the next phase of operations in the areas of Heintsi and Sungkiatsi, in northwest Anhwei Province since their victory over the Chungking 29th Army on Sunday, began moving eastward early yesterday morning, scattering a large Chinese force belonging to the Chungking 61st division after a pitched six-hours' battle in heights north of Shwanho, Japanese forces which had pursued the retreating enemy to the south, and had turning southeastward, advanced by nightfall as far as Chukiatsi, southeast of Kwantung-chen, in Hupeh Province, Other Japanese units operating from Tsaoyang, on the northern border of Hupeh, blasted their way at noon yesterday into Teihokow, 45 kilometres south of Suihsien where they struck a crushing blow to 500 Chungking troops, Late in the afternoon, the same units occupied Yinchiatien, 35 kilometres north of Suibsien,—Domei, North China, May 20, General Liu-Mao-en, Commander of the Chinese 14th Group Army, with his bodyguards, is hiding south of Yangcheng, in Shansi Province, while General Tseng Wan-chung, Commander of the Fifth Group Army, has possibly committed suicide in the mountainous regions ape proximately 35 kilometres cast of Siahsien, according to Chinese pri~ taken in the Shansi Province It will be recalled thet both the 15th and 5th Group Armies were part of the Chungking First War Zone forces under Commander-in~ Chief Wei Li-huang, which were decisively defeated by Japanese forces.
More than 30 Chinese soldiers from the headquarters of the Chinese Third Army, including a colonel, were captured by the Japanese forces this morning in the heights north of Tuishan,—Domej
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