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JAPANESE AT LANGFENG * CHINESE CLAIM SEVERAL SUCCESSES INVADERS ENTER POHSIEN (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PEKING, May 29. (Received May 30, at 5.5 p.m.) The Japanese admit the reverse at Langfeng, the spearhead of their thrust to the interior, and state that they are fighting with their backs to the Yellow River. In addition to Langfeng, the Chinese claim that they have recaptured Menghsien, Tsinyang, Winhsein and other strategic points on the north bank of the Yellow River, which removes the danger of the Japanese cutting the Lunghai railway, westward of Changchow. A Shanghai message states that the Japanese claim to have outflanked the Chinese at Chengchow and forced an entry into Pohsien, 40 miles south of Kweiteh, to which the Japanese are hastening to relieve General Doihara’s army, against which General Chiang Kai-shek is directing an offensive from Chengchow.
A message from Tokio states that the Japanese have completed the occupation of Kweiteh, which deprives the Chinese of the base from which they have been operating in the rear of the Japanese in the Langfeng sector.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 11
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