AIR COMBATS IN RAID ON NANKING
THE CHINA MAIL
BRIGHTER PICTURE OF WAR SITUATION
(Continued from Page 1) while the boom across the Yangtse
the southern front, and that the etreat on Changhing is pro- very slowly with gradual stiffening of opposition.
new defence line has been prepared at Lakiahang, half-way
Nanking, To-day. there still stands.
Even if the boom is breached, the Although usually au-
Japanese will have to clear miles thoritative Chinese minefields, and would have to con- sources originally claim-tend with another boom at Chin-between Wushing and Chang- ed that a plane brought NANKING CONFIDENCE
kiang
hing
CHINESE DEFENCE
down in a dog fight be- Nanking, they say, will be well The Chinese military com tween Chinese and Jap-able to defend itself against air is evidently well acquainted with
attacks, as has been shown in the the necessities of the presen anese planes over Nanpast, for the city is well-equipped situation and the new defence king yesterday was Jap-with anti-aircraft guns, and Chin-system stretches all the way ese planes almost always engage from Kiangyin, through Wusih, anese, Reuter has now the raiders.Renter
west of the Taihu Lake to be established that it was
yond Changhing actually a Chinese plane. The pilot escaped unhurt
by parachute.
Aerial combats over Nanking
WUSHING'S FALL
area or moving down
It is believed here that the Japanese effort to outflank the Wusth defences will fail unless strong reinforcements are pro- Shanghai, 1.30 pm, To-day. vided, as there are at least yesterday afternoon marked the Official claim to the capture of 200,000 troops in the Changhing first appearance of Soviet planes, Washing in North Chekiang is according to reliable observers, now made in a Japanese com-
HANGCHOW BOMBED who state that these ultra-fast munique, which reveals that the
The Japanese, in the meantime, machines had not hitherto been North Gate fell after long and
are moving against Hangchow, used by the Chinese air force. desperate resistance at ten
with the obvious intention of It is learned that the Chinese o'clock yesterday morning. Government has bought
con By eleven a.m. nearly two brinsing the town as their main siderable number of planes from gades had thrust their way into base in the operations on the
southern front the Soviet, while Soviet instruc-the city and by nightfall, capture
Hangchow was heavily bombed tors have been training Chinese had been completed, after nearly
from the air yesterday and again pilots. Reuter
eight hours of sanguinary streets morning. fighting.
is re It is now A
miles of angchow, where evacuation of vihans has begun, Measures are being taken for defence of the city. KIANGYIN HOLDS
Budapest, To-day
the admitted that
The Japanese advanc
Much prominence is given in the strength of Chinese resistance isported to be within Hungarian press to the visit to being completely maintained on Berlin of the Premier and Foreign Minister.
both counties had been discussed, The Premier, in a statement in especially in the economic Berlin, said that questions affecting trading field. Trans-Ocean.
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On the Northern front, Japanese admit that all attacks on Kiangyin have failed, and it is apparent that they are experiencing transport difficulties. The artillery in the re gion is as yet insufficient for the requirements of the situation, des- pite the aid of naval craft in the Yangtsze.
MOVE
Difficulties of maintaining the army in the field as they further from their main bases is revealed by the fact that supplies had yesterday and this morning to be dropped by parachute from aero- planes.
The Chinese forces have with- drawn, almost wholly to the Kiang- ym-Wusih defence line, though sharp fighting is continuing to the Our Own
of Wusth adent
TOKYO WAR OFFICE ON CAMPAIGN
Tokyo, To-day.
Japanese troops have already reached Wusth, about half way be tween Shanghai and Nanking, and 40 kilometres north-west of Soochow according to officia dams but there is no assertion
of Wus
The Japanese are attacking two columns on Nank
west, one driving along
way line from Shanghai
capital, and one on the uthern bank of Taihu Lake.
The Taihu Lake forces have now. captured W
and are astride the Hange
Railway
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