Nanking, Sept. 10.
Chinese troops, heavily reinforced, ate now counter-attacking Japanese positions at Yaokuantun station on the Tsinpu front. Since Saturday afternoon a fierce artillery duel has been raging.
A small Japanese unit of about 100 men, discovered operating at Leelou near Yaokuantun with several tanks, were fired upon by Chinese armoured trains. The Japanese later retreated.
The Tsinpu front is now engaging the Wullest Japanese attention, for their present plan is to push through the Chinese defence and occupy Tsangchow, to be synchronized by an attack by their naval vessels on Haichow off the northern Kiangsu coast.
Information from Tientsin states that about 30000 more Japanese troops have arrived here, ready for action on the Tsingpu front. Part of them have been rushed to Kuan off the Peiping-Hankow Railway to strengthen their forces in that sector.
'A decisive battle is believed imminent between the two forces in the North China plain, The battlefield, it is expected, will be around Paoting on the Pinghan line and Tsangchow on the Tsingpu front—Central News.
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