Kobe, Oct. 15.
Mr, Nobubumi Ito, "envoy-at-large" to Shanghai, left here for China yesterday in the Nagasaki Maru. /Mr. Ito, who formerly was Minister to Poland, will maintain contact with foreign diplomatic officials in Shanghai to clarify Japan's stand in her dispute with China. Also aboard the ship was Dr. Shinzo Shinjyo, president of the Shanghai Science Institute, a Japanese institution on Route Ghisi.—Domei, Taiyuan Bombed: Threat from East Emerges Peiping, Oct, 15.
Reports of Chinese successes in North Shansi are readily credited here. It is regarded as significant that the Japanese military authorities profess complete lack of information from Shansi, although previously they had admitted that Chinese resistance in the Yuanping area was unexpectedly stubborn. Nevertheless, it Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi, has been given a respite from attack from the north, it is seriously threatened from the east.
Japanese troops, advancing weste ward from Shihchiachwang, entered Shansi through the Niangtzekuan Pass, on the border of Hopel and Shansi provinces, yesterday morning, encountering little opposition, al-
able.
the pass is eminently defend-'The Japanese also cf&im that they have captured Chunkwan Pass, southeast of Niangtzekuan Pass, and are now attacking Chinese positions in Hsinkwan, further west.
Japanese troops in the Peiping-Hankow Railway zone report a further advance as far as Lincheng, 50 miles south of Shihchiachwang, where coal mines belonging to the Peking Syndicate, a British concern, re situate Simultaneously, a force operating in the Tientsin-Pukow Railway zone. are pressing rapidly towards the Yellow River after smashing the Chinese defences at Pingyuan.—Reuter.
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