DEFENCES GIVE WAY
CHINESE TAKE UP NEW LINE FIGHTING IN THE YANGTSE VALLEY. MORE HOPES OF ASSISTANCE FROM RUSSIA. (Recd This Day, Noon.) HANKOW, September 6. The Chinese defences on the mountain railway between Kiukiang and Nanchang have collapsed and a new line is being formed south of Mahuiling, in order to guard Teian. The Press hails the ambassadorial appointment of General Yintse to Moscow as initiating permanent RussianChinese co-operation. JAPANESE ADVANCING CHECK AT YELLOW RIVER. DYKES AGAIN BREACHED. (Recd This Day, 12.50 p.m.) TOKIO. September 6. Still converging on Hankow the Japanese right wing reports the capture of Taikang. The centre has advanced to Sinyang, after reducing adjacent villages. The left wing captured Kwangtsi, after street fighting. The Japanese occupied key points on the north bank of the Yellow River, preparatory to crossing, but the Chinese again made a breach on the dykes and caused floods at Wenhsien.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 6
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