APPROACH TO HANKOW
JAPANESE FORGES
STRATEGIC POINT TAKEN
FLOODS STOP MOTORS
CHINA'S NAVAL LOSSES
(United Press Association—By Etoctrte Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received October 5, 12.30 pan.) SHANGHAI, October 4.
Heavy rain on the Yangtze front has raised the level of the river and swamped the roads, thereby stalling the, Japanese mechanised units. Chinese pursuit planes drove off bombers operating on the south bank of the Yangtze. Japanese planes bombed the Canton-Hankow and Canton-Kowloon railways. Japanese approaching the Hukuang railway claim that they have severely defeated the Chinese. The Japanese have captured Tungtowshan, a strategic point in the Hankow defences. I
A Tokio message states that Japanese captured Panpishan, a fortress on the Yangtze opposite Tienshiacheng, thus breaking the first of the Hankow defence lines.
The Japanese navy and air force claim to have sunk forty-eight Chinese warships since the outbreak of the campaign, aggregating 70 per cent, of the fleet. Most of the remainder are bottled up in Tungting Lake. \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 13
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APPROACH TO HANKOW JAPANESE FORGES
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 13
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