Soochow, Nov. 3.
Wusih station, on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, was bombed by five Japanese planes at 9 am. to-day. More than fifteen bombs were unloaded, blowing up a section of the railway tracks—Central News, With little change in the positions along the local fronts yesterday, the bitterest fighting between the Chinese and Japanese forces developed at Dien Doo, a village on the south bank of the Soochow Creek in line with Monument Road, some three kilometres west of Rubicon Village. Near there a body of Japanese troops, estimated at some 1,000 men, crossed during the afternoon reinforcing others who had crossed before.
Earlier in the day Chinese reports stated that they had surrounded 300 men in Dien Doo village. In the evening it was stated that the 100 Japanese remaining had -barricaded themselves in during the crossing of the 1,000 men who later joined them.
Foreign observers, commenting on the situation, stated that this appeared to be the chief drive of the Japan-
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