ESPITE the lack of tanks, Peiping, Sept. 17. heavy artillery and aeroplanes, Chinese troops in North China are making a desperate effort to check the Japanese offensive eastward along the Peiping-Hankow Railway.
The Japanese report a slight advance on the left flank, which stretches within thirty miles of Tientsin, but it appears that the Chinese resistance here has been most stubborn and has hitherto delayed the realization of the Japanese objective of encircling the Chinese troops.
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