Taining Is regarded as the key to '"kweiteh, which is situated roughly midway" between Hsuchowfu and Kaifeng, Honan, Kweiteh were to be seriously menaced by the Japanese, the large force of Chinese concentrated in the, Hosuchowsu area would be forced to withdraw to avoid encivelement— tions north of Tenhsien against re~ peated Japanese attacks and it denied here that the Japanese have captured the town of Tsilin, west of the -Tientsin-Pukow railway. Fight ing for possession of this town is still in progress.
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