ADVANCE ON HANKOW FROM NORTH
♦—— JAPANESE CAPTURE TEN TOWNS (Received September ’23, 7.10 p.m.) TOKYO, September 22. The Japanese, after the capture of 10 towns on the northern edge of the Taipeh mountains, claim to have completed the first half of their drive to Hankow from the north. The Shanghai correspondent of the British United Press Association says that, preceded by bombers, the Japanese tp the north of the Yangtse-kiang river, launched what is hoped to be the last phase of the drive along the Peiping-Hankow railway. Japanese bombers. demolished warehouses, munition dumps at Siyang, and bombed the Chinese front at Loshan. which they claim to have occupied. The Chinese claim important victories on the Nanchang front, where they silenced Japanese batteries at Mahweiling and occupied a number of villages.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 11
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