Peiping, Oct, 22.
After fierce hand-to-hand fighting, Japanese troops broke Chinese sistance in the Hsinkou mountains in Shansi, says a Japanese report from Yuanping. The Japanese southward drive to Taiyuanfu, held up here by the Chinese Communist forces for more than two weeks, is now expected to speed up, it states. The Japanese troops, it achs, advancing against machine-gun and rifle fire as well as a barrage of hand grenades, routed the Chinese from the last trenches at the point of a bayonet.
A Japanese armoured train on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, reaching a point 1,000 metres north of Yucheng, Shantung, exchanged fire to-day with Chinese troops entrenched near the railway station, says a Japanese report from Tehchow. The train then withdrew across the Tubal River to its base, To impede the Japanese advance the Chinese destroyed the bank of the Tubal river, flooding the countryside between Changchuang and Yucheng.—Reuter.
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