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Japanese Claim Column's Race To Taihu Lake
COMPLETELY OUTWITTED ON WESTERN FRONT
MAGNIFICENT WORK TAIYUANFU'S
BY REARGUARDS
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
Shanghai, 2 p.m., To-day.
Although the Chinese withdrawal from the Soochow Creek sector was confidently predicted yesterday, when signs of the Chinese intention were first detected, the operation took the Japan- ese completely by surprise, to the extent that some hours elapsed before they became aware that a large-scale movement was under way.
WEST GATE FALLS TO NEW ONSLAUGHT
From Our Own Correspondend Pepmg, 1.45 p.m. To-day. It is evident from the Japanese afficial reports on the sanguinary
NO PEACE TALKS
Berlin, To-day
A Chinese Embassy statement There yesterday says that the Nan- king Foreign Ofice has definitely denied all reports that discussions between-China and Japan for end- ing the war were taking place, or that apart from the Brussels Conference any other mediation was in progress Trans Ocean.
in the wall at the north-east corner of the city were small.
had had to battle in
other burkin
ed to house a machine g
rent.
-PASSAGE FORCED
To compel withdrawal,
ment and at 9 am the Goto
fighting now taking place in the ther onslaught was launched at am on the West Gate, follow- They lost any opportunity of inflicting casual-streets of Taiyuanfu that the ties on the retiring troops, a fact chiefly attributable Chinese defenders are living up to ing a heavy artillery bombard to the magnificent control of the rear-guards, who their proclaimed intention of dying Regiment, and the Usgure Brig during the hours of darkness, when the withdraw-fighting and that capture of the lade had forced a massag al was at its height, maintained machine-gun and city is proving a costly operation. were threatening the flanks of trench mortar fire on a scale suggesting that their ing, the gains of the Japanese trenches were much more thickly manned.
When the Japanese troops in the sector near- est the Settlement boundary eventually essayed an advance, they found themselves occupying trenches which had been completely abandoned.
The Chinese troops have taken up a newly prepared line west of the Hungiao Aerodrome, ex- tending behind Kiangkiao to Nanziang. Kiang- kiao was occupied by the Japanese at about 9 am without resistance, and the village of Hungchiao- chen fell into their hands similarly.
Both are to the south-west of Another, detachment has, how- Nanziang and the Japanese ap-jever, thrown itself across the Hang pear now to be preparing to at- chow-Shanghal Railway farther tack Nanziang from this direc- south and effectively stopped the
possibility of any Chinese
aniang which has already cost in this direction.
the Japanese heavily in men in the
Ito
REACHES LAKE
eye about 10,000 strong, is repo
twelve days is expected to The third detachment, believed witness even more violent fighting shortly as capture is likely to be ediate objective of General
the Shanghai front.
OPERATIONS the Japanese angchow Bay
loping more or to plan, although ace is being off and there is believe the Chinése
apanese · column
as been
truck across country, passed the Hangchow-Shangha Railway, and reached the Take, cutting the railway. Hangchow and Nanking near Nan-
Iway towards
(Continued on Pose 21);
When dawn broke this morn-the defending troops.
troops attacking from the North and East Gates, and the breach
The
and
mano uvre achieved its pose, and the unese defer
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