Tientsin, Nov. 14.
Japanese forces which last Friday occupied Wuting and pushed on to the west by crossing the Tuhsieh River, captured the walled city of Tsiyang, an important Chinese position on the north bank of the Yellow River, at 3.40 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the headquarters of the north China garrison announced to-day.
Tsiyang being a strategic position for the Chinese soldiers under General Han Fu-chu, chairman of the Shantung provincial government. north of the Yellow River in the eastern district of Shantung, its occupation by the Ishida unit was claimed by the communique to be a great success for the Japanese forces—Domei.
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