FOILED BY FLOODS
DRIVE ON HANKOW JAPANESE CHANGE PLANS CHINESE DEFENCES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 22, 2.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, June 21. Foiled by the floods in attacking Hankow from the north, the Japanese, who have been , reinforced from the Lunghai area, are pouring -men into the Yangtze-kiang Valley for a new thrust from, the east. Meanwhile they are attempting to break the booms across the river,, the chief of which, at Kiukiang, is'under the'guns of Chinese forts. Sixty Chinese divisions, comprising 700,000 men, are reorganising the defences of Hankow in a triple ring, of which a third of the circuit is being manned by crack troops. The Chinese, in the meantime, are counter-attacking at Tsienshan. Floods are swelling the Whai Eiver in. the Anhui Valley, ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 12
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128FOILED BY FLOODS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 12
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