Chinese Posts in Mountains at Mentoukuo Bombed Peiping, Sept. 12.
Strategic Chinese positions in the mountains west of Mentoukuo, approximately 26 kilometres west of Peiping were heavily damaged yesterday by Japanese aircraft which bombed the area for two hours, Japanese military spokesman asserted to-day.
The spokesman added that an attempt made by the Chinese forces in the area to retreat into the plains along the Peiping-Hankow railway was frustrated when a Japanese detachment cut off the line of retreat.: 1 "Meanwhile, the spokesman revealed, reports have reached military circles here that Gen. Chu Teh, leader of the Communist troops, has been sent by Nanking to bolster the Shansi Province front lines.
Reports from Nanking, the spokesman asserted, indicate that Gen. Teh arrived in Yuanping by train and has been on the march to take up positions at Tatung which the Japanese are expected to assault shortly—Domei Tatung Said Captured Kalgan, Sept. 13.
Tatung, the second largest town in Shansi province, was captured by Japanese troops at 9.50 o'clock this morning, according to an announcement issued here by the Japanese expeditionary force.
Another Japanese column, which advanced from Weihsien, in Charhar, erossed the Shansi border and occupied Kwangling, Shansi, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. the communique claimed.
Military intelligence reports received here to-day said Communist troops, reorganized as the Eighth Route Army, under the command of General Chu Teh, have been massed between Tatung and Taiyuan—
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