VICTORIOUS MARCH
CHINESE IN CHEKIANG PREPARING TO STORM NAHGHANG (Rec. 12.20 p.m.) CHUNGKING, August 26. Continuing their victorious march in Chekiang the Chinese armies are preparing to storm Nanchang, in Kiangsi, reports the Central News. (The Chinese recaptured Tungsiang, a railroad centre 50 miles south-east of Nanchang. This is the eleventh important point in the eastern theatre' regained within a week’s fighting. The Japanese, with strong aerial support, launched an attack in the areas along the Tungpu railway just south of the Yellow River, in Honan. The Chinese are making a concerted attack on the walls of Chuhsicn, where there is a most important airfield, States a Chinese communique. The Chinese have already captured several strategic points around Chuhsicn. The Chinese section of the Che-kiang-Kiangsi railway is now 165 miles long.
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Evening Star, Issue 24284, 27 August 1942, Page 5
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131VICTORIOUS MARCH Evening Star, Issue 24284, 27 August 1942, Page 5
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