Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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36TH YEAR, NO. 33—52 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1942
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Reds Stop German Drivesl Vurk:y"'MZ
Sinks 2 Ships in Harbor After Trailing Convoy in
British Submarine Credited With Most Daring Exploit of the War; Spend Night Dodging Merchantmen
By HK.VRV TO GOBRELL
Alexandria, Egypt, June 13 (UP) -The British submarine Torbay. in : nnr of the war's most daring escapades, stole into an enemy harbor ' on the heels of an Axis convoy, spent 17 hours crash-diving to escape doteclion and finally slipped out lo sea after sinking two enemy supply ships, it was revealed tonight. !
The dramatic slory came directly from the Torbay's young and freshly , decorated crew  who  have  been  credited  officially  with  sinking more ihtn 70,000 tons of Axis shipping In Mediterranean waters.
Thcy   told   of'breath-taking   mo-*	
mfnt.5   when   enemy   patrol   boats ^ merchantment  and  patrol
ps.<sed   within   a  few  feet  of  the
Torbay's   conning   tower   and   how,•"••"•
the   submarine's   36-year-old   com-|    Miers and his crew were prowling
mnnder.   Anihony  Cecil  Miers,   di- the Mediterranean when they first'
lerted  a  masterful  gsme  of  hide- pici,ej   up   the   convoys   trail   and
anrt-seek   on   th.   perilous   return ^^^^^^^  ,^  ^^^ „, ^^^p^^^  ^,„j,     :
All  Sub  Rerord* Smashed
Veterans   of   Mediterranean  .   , ...
w.rfaie said Miers and his crew the haraor--and then came our first undoubtedly bested all records for •"« Ihrlll, a crewman said. \\e daring and courage in underseas """owly missed being rammed l.y raiding.  So  far as is  known,  th.y  »   '"B   merchant  ship  and   had   to
Big Ship Just .Miaaed
Sea*    "^^"» slowly picked our way into
•aid.  there  never has  been  a  par-
craah dive at a moment's  notice."
¦ Ilel   enrapade war.
The date and the  port were  not revelled, but the crewmen did d'*'
In   this   theater   of      " «'«•'' d"*!* " 'he Torbay pick¬ ed her way into the harbor.   After her   first   crash   dive,  she   quickly resurfaced   and   spent   the   nigh: <lo»e   the    presence    of    "several" "landing guard at the harbor's en- Italian vessels. Thl.'!  fact indicated trance.
the Torbay probably entered one of A brilliant moon was shining, and italy'a key Mediterranean bases. the crew remained nn guard all Trailing an enemy convoy, the night lo escape detection by pass- Torbsy puraued it through a nar- ing shipa. At regular intervals, the row channel leading into thc har- Torbay would submerge, then re¬ bor, then aubmerged innumerable appear and r.<main on the surface timea to keep from being rammed iContinued  on  Page  A-ID
Soviets Hurl Nazis Bacl(
Terrible Losses Pile up Attacl(s On Sevastopol And Kharkov
Bombing Attack
Hit Rumanian Oil Fields Which Supply Hitler's War Machine; 'Accomplished Black Sea Mission* Say Filers Who Reached Ankara, One With Messerschmitt on Tail
A sombre atmosphere hangs over this street cafe in Marseilles In un-occuplcd France as a scat¬
tered few patrons seeks to for¬ get tiie fate of France for the moment with thc aid of a cock¬
tail or two. Gloom Is predomi¬ nant todsy throughout the coun¬ try.
British Reach Murmansk
More of AEF in Ireland; Prove Atlantic Victory
Finns Fear Convoy Brought Troops to Open Seoond Front
Ily LKU S. UIMHER
heard   In   responsible  quartera   the A   .Vnrthern   Iriah   Port,  June  13 ^*'''  **"»   thrown   all   its   available (LT.    Strong    evidence    that    the «rength   into  the  flght   and   failed H,i.i„,.i   Hi.n.tch..   m
Alliea   are   winning   the   Battle   of     "°'  ""'>¦ °" 'he  route to Britain  ported   In   Helsmki   dispatches   to the   Atlsntic   was   contained   today In the announcement of the arrival of   annthev   large   American ditinnary   force,  including  Negroes to    ."irengthen    the    Allied    army'.."".'^_,"'_  ^"f_A".''""'_!!'_.."l"* _'"/'hig-acale   attempt   to   open   up   a
Stockholm,    June   13.    (UP)—A Britiah expeditionary force was re¬ ported   in   Helsinki   dispatchea   to- but  to  a  great  extent   recently   in night   to   have   landed   at   Russia's the   United   States   eaatern   coastal Arctic  port  of Murmansk,   but   in- expe- .>*«ter», where ahipping now largely formed    observers    here    doubted is tinder convoy. ,j,gt ^^e British were  making any
i    Only   in   the   t^aribbc in   haa   the
ALEUM SEEN THREAT TO REDS
«hirh wlll open Kurope.
a second  front  In
submsrine  warfare  continued  sue-
Now on Two Sides Of Russian Bases; U.S. Agent on Island
ELMER DAVIS PUT IN CHARGE OF ALL U.S. WAR NEWS
Heads New Agency To Co-ordinate and End Duplication
By HENRV SHAPIRO
Moscow. Sunday, June 14. 'UP) jThe Russian high command re¬ ported today that Soviet forces, stsnding againat Adolf Hitler's mosl savage offensive of the year- old war, have hurled back'syn¬ chronized Oermsn drivea upon Sevastopol fortresa and eaal of Kharkov with "great enemy loaaes."
Official advicea described a frightful slaughter of German and Rumanian troopa al the ap- proa<hes to the beaiegrd Black Sea naval hase and on the Kharkov front.  400 miles  further north. ;
1M,000 Nasi CasualHes
Unofficial estlmales compiled from frort-line dLspatchea plared the enemy dead and wounded dur¬ ing thc past week tt 1,%0.000 or more.
A midnight cAnimuni<|ue said that during the paat 24 hours the Ger¬ mans have been unable to gain In' either the Kharkov or Sevastopol fighting and thnt In several vital sectors they had been driven back.
Ruasian counter-attacka on both fronta were said to have killed and wounded enemy troops "by the thousanda" and swarms of Nazi parachute troops dropped behind the Rus.sian lines at Kharkov were quickly annihilated, ll was reported.
Savage Ruaaian counter-attacka from the fortreas of Sevastopol, great Riis.sinn naval base on the Crimean Black ,Sea coaat, were .•.aid in offlcial advices to have inflicted "frightful" slaughter upon the Nazis, with thousands nf enem.v dead heaped before the Soviet posi¬ tiona. Shifted AHark Falls
Defeated in their attempta to storm the rock-girt defenaea of Sevastopol nn the southeast and northeast,  the  Germans were  said
to have  shifted  the brunt  of their
,.^       ,     .^      ^               new   European   front   against   the        UT   tlUSSiaH  ISaSeS; 10 bO-OrOinaie aPQ                 attack  to a twomile  sector  north
cessfull.y,    although    the   GermansJA^ig                                                          ,       ...    gn-n*  ftn  l«lanri Fnfl  nimliratif)n                          of the city-only to he hurled back
'"¦.''' >'«l mass more naval and  U-      ..,..,.,      . u ._ .u- -_..,.         U.O.  Aueni  Oil  ISianQ ClIU  UUpiK/dllUn                          . , ... d,...i.„„»,,„.— .tf.,.i..
It waj, the fourth American In.p boa,   atrennth   for  a   desnaratc   at-'    ^ Helsinki diapatch lo the news-, "  •"  by the Russian counter attacka.
  ._    .,-. , _.: "•»»'  airengtii  ior a  aesparaie  at Allehanda  said   the   British   ,..    ^, ;  "At   Sevastopol   our   troopa   suc-
-"n   JU witnout the loaa or a  man .ui.  RH.Uh"'inv.'.lnl"'frLi •"*   '", troopa   had   arrived  al  Murmanak     Waahinglon, June  13  <UP>   The Washington,    June    13.    (UP)- cessfully  repulsed thc  enemy's at-
«nrt.  in  addition  to •thouaand.V' of '•'^f'x^Hh   Ai^ant^c ^^f^^^^^^   tjtfur  UavcWmf:   in  convoy   .croas «ueceaa of American coiinter-meas- Preaident    Rooaevelt    consolidated tacks   and    reclaimed    their   posi-
men.   il   alao   cariied   manv   tanks American coaat to BrilainTnd    hei the Allied Arctic sup^^^^^ the   high   command's   mid-
.n.. guna Of all de.crlpt^n.              .i^'cTirT'la'-co^nS^^                           ""cmpt  .o  open  up a  "- .;'o^ U.-d^.^ «^,the we^aU ,„„^^,,^   ^„,„   ^^^   ^^^^^^.   ^„ ¦ „,ght^communique ^s.,d^^     ^^   ^^^^
In the three months lhat I have,Alliea and  no  Axia  aurface  raider "°" ¦..„,,      .                         uncertain tonight,  following  initial be known aa   ::Thc  Office  of War added, the pounding German drive
h"n     on    convoya     fhat     brouitnt has ventured into these watera fnr .Mij>'   Protect   Kallroad                           reporta that Army and Navv fliera Information" and headed by Elmer a„in,t     Marshal    Semvon    Timo-
.ho„.,and,   of   American   and   Can- montha.     Cargo  ships  sunk   by  U-,   J^'^.^^'^^Ve^n'^an    lorcr'su^ «"«    "•>''"»   to 'dislodge    the    in- Davia.   ,^2-year-old   new.^paperman. X^o»   forces   had   been   alowed adian  troopa  and dozens  of  Inns-  boata   are   a   amall   number   com- cently   that   German    forces   sup- ...j...                                                      I author and radio commentator.
By DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT
Ankara, June 13. (UP)—A fleet of I'nited States foir- motored boml>ers manned by American crews has carried out a destructive bombing of Rumania's oil fields, it was reported reliably tonight after six «r possibly seven of the big raiders were forced down in Turltey enroute home to their secret bases.
The United States formally declared war eight days ago against Nazi-dominated Rumania, as well as against Bulgaria and Hungary, and the reported bombing of .\dolf Hitler's "gas tank" was regarded as the first direct United States blow against the .\xis Balkan satellites.
"We  acconipli.slied  our mission   in  tiie   Black  Sea,"  the American pilots of tlie planes forced down on neutral Turkish teri'itoiy—one   with    a   Running   German   Messerschmitt fighter in hot pursuit—were quoted as saying. Consolidated B-24 Bombers
Four of the big bombers, each capable of flying 3,000 miles and cariyinsr a liiaximum of four tons of bombs, were forced down, according to an official Turkish announcement, and three othei-s were undei'stood to have landed, on Turkish soil.  Their bomb I'acks wei'c empty when they came in.
The planra were identified as Consolidated B-24 bombers, called I.ilipratoi'S by the British, although some earlier re¬ ports referred to them as Douglas bombers.
The crews, including two who had been wounded either in battle against Axis planes or by Turkish anti-aircraft fire,
were  interned  by  Turkish  author-  	
ities   in   conformity   wllh   irMernt-\^^^^^^^   ,^^   ^^^  ^^^^  Consolldateds
tional  law .with    their    3.000-mile   range   and
Three   of   the   bombers    manned ^ ^^^  ^j  ^^^^  ,^g„   ^^  „,„,  ,„ by    27    Americans,    made    forced ^^^^^ , landings at Ankara's airdrome yea- ' ......
terdav becau.,e of lack of fuel. A * flight acrosa Turkey to Ru- fourth ciaah-landed near lamet "'«"'« would be comparable to the with the German fighter In pursuit British long-range bombing attacks and a fifth waa reported without °" "«"«" tarffl* confirmation to have landed at *^"n' S'vastopol, Sa>, Berlin Diarbakir in Southeaatern Ama- The German radio, reporting ths tolia, about 20 minutea flying time landing of the American bombera, from the Svrian border. Two other h«d '"I'l earlier that they were only hombera were underatood to have P"^ of a much larger formation landed in Southern Turkey—a total ^"<* that they had "eacaped from of aeven Sevastopol.       Ruaaia a    Blark    Sea
Crimean   fortreaa   which   ia   under heavy German siege.
At   least   four   of   the   American bombers   were   said   to   have   ex-
down.
rnrl,, snd cargo .ships to the Britiah pared with those that get lhroi.S>^^ ¦ The new agency will consolidate      "In   the   Kharkov   direction   our
M" we have not faced one enemy      Ev.n in the air. the Axia ., fail- .soon     '''""'¦%;^„,;„7^. jj^^";^';* ruaa the operaUona   The only com- the functiona and dutiea of the fol- troops    fought    enemy   tanka   snd
effort   to  choke   off munique   on   the   situation   wa.i   'a- (Continued  on  Psrc A-ISi ' irontinued   on   Pnge  A-ini
torpcflo nr cannon shot. Axia Has Failed
Krom   whal    I   have   seen    andi
ing.     The   AEF   convoya   havc   not against   the encountered   air   attacka   aa   they railroad  in  an
Two Fliers Wounded
The bomber which crash-landed near    Lamei    after    Turkiah    guns
fired   on   It   and   alao   on   the   pur- ,.j   ... ,.      ,.   ,     j     ,.     ...
auing German fighter, landed in h»"»ted their bomb loads by tha Turkiah territorial waters. Two of |i,™« '^ey reached Turkish terri- ita aeven-man crew including the captain were wounded, but it waa not known whether they were hit by the Turkiah fire or the guna of the German planea.
The Rumanian oil fields, centered in the Ploeati area north of Buch¬ arest, are a chief aource of fuel for Germany's mechanized forces and planea on the Ruaaian fron'. Ru.«- aian planes have bombed the oil fields of Rumania repeated!
tory.
The 27 members of the bomberi which landed al the Ankara air¬ drome were in high spirits, al* though technically tliey were un¬ der interment. They wore United States Army Air Force uniforms and were housed in a fashionable villa at Recioren on the outskirts of Ankara, owned by a member ef Parliament.
A  high Turkiah source said;
"Wc   will    give   our   unexpected
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From Germany
Lexington .Crew Gallant
Had fo Bo Ordorod otf flaming Carritr, Says Captain    ,^^„_,, ^.,. , „
San Diego, Cal., Junc 13.  (UP)—i    "Il waa  aomething I shall never     '"nien Rear Admiral Fitch and 1  __^^______^_.——
Admiral    Frederick    C.    Sherman, forget.'  Sherman   said. left    the    bridge^     Admiral    Fitch      .. IVnrtiinn
tonimander of the ill-fated aircraft "Brilllanl seamanship" of offlcera went over the side forward. I made IM CIV H arillflff carrier Lexington said today that «n'l "icn of the destroyers and an inspection aft snd ran into a «n aircraft carrier la "the most''''"'»«" who picked up survivors couple of gun crewa of from 40 to rowcrful ship afloat " but added '""om t'>e Lexington prevented the 50 men juat preparing to leave the "iat "nothing will ' atop a de-'o"" of a aingle man through ahip. One of them shouted: •"•mined air attack on a ship «t ^"wning, Sherman aaid. Casualties ¦• i^et's give three cheers for Cap.' kea " in the bomb and torpedo attack by     ..j^j^^ ,hev did. right there on the
"The  offen.e  haa   it  all   over  the'l'""*""^ P'*"" T"*? '" "'*'  ".^"i.\' ''«'*    of    the    ainking    Lexington. <''>fena"e,'""hT^^Ji^.t  a  preis   con! '"« '-r- -"d exploaiona were light, ^^.y gave mc three cheers." *T"- I    Performance of men and offlcera     A"er he was aatlafled th»t every .
Sherman,    who    was    promoted in   the   battle   was   "aomething   to"'""   u,°"aa Sh"m»n,
from (he rank of captain two daya make vou proud you are an Ameri- '"'''•  ho slipped down  a  rope  into, "K".  gave  a   detailed   and   graphic can."  he  said. "'*,   i'"\"'    ^''^'"    *    motorboat
""nunt   of   the   two-day   running      Renr Adm. A.  \V.  Fitch,  aboard P'!:'!^"','""' T.l,. r-vi„,.«„ hattie   May   7   and   8   In   which   the his   flagahip   Lexington,   made   the    ^ At   the   end   the  Lexington   «aa '•'•xington,   a   U.  .S.   destroyer   and decision   to   abandon   ahlp   after   a «««    f'""'    «l^"'     ?,,     .^[v. . '*"" •  "I'Pply  ahip  were   loat. Japaneae torpedo set the huge car- "'''P" commander aaid.      Wt were;
liailnrs Stopped to Cheer {rler afire and  resulted  in a series
Sailors  and   Marines,  ordered  to »'  '"ploslona   at   Intervals  of  five •bandon    the    Lexington    as    she *""  '"  minutes. "•nk  in  thc  Coral Sea.  paused  on  •^•'7 ««•"'««•" »•  i^«ve lhe flaming deck to shout a cheer I      ' lt"ve the order as  it was ap
War  Sum mary
, afraid  she  might  drift  on  and  be diacovered  by  the Japs. , Didn't Want  te Sink
"So   a  destroyer  waa   ordered   to flre three torpedoes into her.    But'
'or Sherman,  he  said.
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proaching    sunset."    Sherman    re- she didn't want to sink even then,
lated.   "Everything waa carried out She   finally   went   down   on   even
in  orderly fashion. keel,    her    flags    flying    and    her
"Many   men    were   reluctant   to signal   flaga    reading   'abandoning
leave.    They had to be ordered off. ship'  still   aloft,
wc    disembarked     the    aick     and "Aboul   20   minutes   later   a   tre-
wounded in boata. mendous underwater explosion waa
"Some of the men took off their felt    for    20    milea    around.     The
shoes, set them ncallv on thc flight magazine appirently had exploded,
deck   in  good aailor  fashion,   rolled The   cruiser    I   was   on    ahook   ao
up their trouaer legs and went over hard    we   thought   wc   were   lor-
the side. 1 pedoed.'
sued Friday night. At that time the Navy said the Japanese h.id , landed at Attn and that aome Jip-
arese   ships   had   heen   disccwerel ^,^^^^     ,_^^_^^^^_^_^_,
ll- fog-ahrouded Kiska H:i;bo- The ^^nHed Statea four-motor hom-1 newspapera claimed that a Briti.sh aiie of the two forces was :iot a.a-|^p^, „^^„„^^ hy American crews expeditionary force had landed in i'^'"*"'- jhave     joined     the     war     on     the | the   Ru.ssian   Arctic   port   of   Mur-
Initlal countrr-attacks by Uniled Em-opean    continent    with    a    big manak   to   open   a   "second   front" States   air   forces   had   beaten   the gmie   bomhing   cf   thc   Rumanian! but informed observers doubled the
oil   fields   which   supply   Gcrm.iny | truth   of   the   reporta.   Once   before with    much    of   thc   fuel    for    her,such  a   force   was  reported   by   the mechanized   wnr   machine,   it   wn.s^aamc source it  turned  out  later  to j reported  reliably in Ankara today,  be   composed   of  technicians. The   bombing   wa.s   reported   after
six or seven of thc hombera nndc Jap columns, led by bomber forced landings in Turkey while squadron.s. were reported smash- enroutc bRtk to their secret bases,  'ng at   thc Chineae defenses  in  an
effort     to     gsln     control     of     thc
On     the     Libyan     battle     front Chuhsien - Nanchang    railroad    but
Biili.sh   nnd   Axis   armored   forces they   wero   reported   making   little
jwere locked in H savage battle only  progresa   in   an   elTort   to   capture
11,1   miles   from   the   British   coastal «   lOO-miic   gap   atill   held   by   the
.strongliold     of     Tohriik    a     battle chineap.    The Chineae were report-
v.hich may decide  the  three-weeks cd   hitting   the   Japanese    rear   at
old struggle  in  thc desert. Nanchang. western end of the rail-
„        .       ,      r.      . 1 road.
i     At     Sevastopol.     Ruaaian     naval
; ba.se   guarding   the   Black   Sea   np-      RAK fighter planea attacked rail-
, pionrhcs   to  thc   oii-rirh  ('aiifasu.s. roads,   fnctnrica   and   other   targct.s
j Soviet   defenders   hung   on   grimly in    ocnipied    Fr.incc    by    daylight
I through   the   ninth   day   of   a   siege Saturdav.     Thc heavy bombera were
that    prabably    coat    the   Germans again  on   the  ground   Friday night
i 100,000    casualties,    including    per- for thc  fourth  straight night, indi-
haps   25.000  dead,   in   the   past   five  eating  either  bad  weather  or  that
days alone. the    British    were    grouping    their
forces   in   preparation   for   another
Thus, for the time, being at least, gp^ies of "thousand plane"  raids.
the wars spotlight  swung  halfway
¦¦ around  the globe   from  thc Paciflc      Another   American   troop   convoy
front,    allnough    Japanese    and arrived   in   northern   Ireland   with-
war." American   forces   apparently   wore  out   a    losa   of   a   man.   indicating
Actually, however. German sub-    battlinK at  the  western end of  the that   the   Allies   were   winning   the
marines, planes and surface raid-   Aleutian    Islands.      No   new.s    has battle  of the Atlantic.
ers never have paid heed to pro-    come   from   there   since   the   .Navy
claimed   combat   areas   and   have    announced  Japanese  occupation   of      ^Va»hington    arnoun.ed    that    a
two minor islands Fridav night.        ^-  ^    merchantmart" and   a   United
Nation.s    freighter   were    sunk   off
Helsinki   dispalchea   lo   Swedish the South Atlantic coasL
About  SO American  airmen were .   ^^^ ^j^„^j  g^^^^^ aviators,
underatood   to   have   been   aboard '^^   ^^,^     ^^^,^,^  hospitality.'-
the   six   or   aeven   bombers   forced down and interned. (The   distance   from   the   closest
poasible  hospitality. .May Ba l'aed aa Instructors
It     wss     understood    that
ths
Allied-held territorv Syria-lo the United States sirmen of the cla Ploeati fielda ia 900 miles, or a or seven planes-presumably • round-trip of about 1.600 miles, eaay 'Continued on Page  A-IO)
Chinese Fight to Keep Japs from Closing Cap
Germany announced Saturday night that shipa of all nations traveling anywhere in the North Atlantic beginning June 26 will be subject to attack by German aubmarines, planea snd surface raiders.
The Germans, hy their pro¬ claimed blockade and warning of unrestricted U-boat warfare, aeek lo prevent all ahipa, induding vessels from Sweden, Portugal, Turkey and other neutral nations, from reaching United States At¬ lantic  ports.
The broadcast warning, follow¬ ing Nazi hoasta of tha ainking of a United Statea dealroyer and 27 other ahlpa from atrongly pro¬ tected American convoya, said the extenaion of thc Nazi block¬ ade zone waa "in consequence of the  United  Slates entry  Inlo the
attacked and .-unk ahipa of all nationa neutral and belligerent --without regard  lo loocs.
By ROBKRT P. .MARUN
Chungking. China, June 13. (UP"
Japanese columns, ied by atrong bomber squadrons, smaslied at un¬ yielding Chinese defenaea in Kiangsi and Chekiang provincea to¬ day but the Chinese reported they were striking back along the Kan Rivcr and near Nanchang.
Thc most furious fighting was southwest of (_'hangshan and east and weat of Liang^han, bul to¬ night's communique aaid that there waa no important change on llie Chekiang  province  front. j
Keeping Oap Open {
The Japanese have been attempt¬ ing to seize all of the railroad be¬ tween Chuhsien and Nanchang but the fighting southwest of Chang- shan indicated that they had made little progress in closing a gap nf about 100 miles stili held by thc Chinese.
There was no new report from the front in regard to the Japan- e.sc puah in this sector toward thr Yuahan airfleld. which atill la hrld by the Cbincsa.   It U a base trom
which  Allied   planes  might   ctrlka at Tokyo.
Three operationa were along thc border of Kiangsi and Cheklar provinces, where Ihe Japanese on F'ridsy made flve l>ombing attaekf on Pucheng, a frontier town. Enemy planes also were reported active north of Kwantung and twa American Volunteer Group planes were reported damaged In air battlea in the Kweilin sector, 2SS miles northeast of Canton. Chinese Report Advance
In Kiangsi Province, the Chinese communique said that an advance had been made against the Jap¬ anese along the eaat hank of the Kan River, whrre thc Chinese still are moving forward.
In addition, the communique aaid. Chinese forces again are at¬ tacking Japanese in the vicinily n( the important enemy base at Nan- (han!!, attempting to slash the Japaneae rear lines and alow up the eastward advance of the enemy from Nanchang towsrd Tinglun and a junction with the enem.v forres moving westward slong Um •ailroad trom Chuhsien.