Fired On From Across River Near Whangpoo Ferry Japanese, pushing in from Dien Doo and Wucl had reached the Monumen and Pearce Roads junction early yesterday, while last night's communique from the Japanese reported the further capture of Tso Ka Jao, from where they advanced! to a line parallel to Lincoln Avenue. The direction of rifle and small arms fire yesterday afternoon. in the direction of the British lines from far to the west, indicated a, considerable advance in the Monument Road area and that the Japanese had driven salient in past Peiping Fears for Safety of Missionaries Peiping, Nov. 7.
Climaxing the most severe campaign of the hostilities in North China, Japanese troops have entered Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi and for years the headquarters of General Yen Hsi-shan, the "Model Governor."
The first Japanese soldiers to reach the city consisted of a cavalry unit, which seized the north gate, while subsequently infantry forces, advancing from the north, proceeded to encircle the city in face of continuous Chinese resistance. Simultaneously, Japanese aircraít bombed the city walls.
Fighting is now in progress in Hsiaotenchen, ten miles south of Taiyuanfu, where a Japanese force, advancing from Yutzu, seventeen miles south-east of the capital, in an endeavour to cut off the Chinese retreat, encountered 3,000 Chinese troops.
With the fall of Taiyuanfu, the Japanese advance towards the Yellow River on all fronts is now expected to be speeded up.
A Japenese unit pursuing the Chinese troops from vicinity of Taiyuanfu claims to have reached Taiku, thirty miles south of the capital. Another force reports the capture of Taiyuanhsien, a town ten miles southwest of Taiyuanfu, after sharp fight-
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