Show JAPAN TIGHTENS PINCERS MOVE SHANGHAI Nov 9 Japanese UPI troops carried their advance into Hunan province today by capturing west of the Canton railway and tightening ing their pincers movement against an important Yangtze river and railroad city miles upriver from Japanese warships pierced mine minefields minefields fields ields to reach 90 miles above lankow Forty Japanese Japanese planes planes bombed the airdrome Hunan lunan province and claimed to have destroyed 16 grounded Chinese planes Report Seizures The capture of 80 miles southwest of and 40 miles niles east of was reported by Japanese after a furious all- all night battle after which dead and more than motor trucks were said to have been abandoned on the field by retreating Chinese The Chinese continued to claim success in a offensive counter-offensive in South China and said the Japanese were falling back from and The reports lacked confirmation confirmation con- con here RANGOON Burma Nov 9 UP The The newspaper New Light of Burma in a dispatch from near the British military station of reported that truckloads of ot arms and ammunition passed through in the direction of the he Chinese frontier It was asserted asserted as- as that the roads were closed to other ther vehicles It has been reported that on both the he China and Burma sides of the frontier that roads have been improved improved improved im im- proved and new roads built to give an improved route into the remote southwestern province of in n China The source of ot supply for China is potentially a most important important tant ant one now that the Hong Kong route oute to Canton has been cut and Japan has demanded that France stop top the flow of munitions into China through Indo |