Nanking, Nov, 17.
Dr. J. C. Thoroughman and the Linfeng. Nov. 17.
Though outwardly there has been a lull in Shansi the Japanese are speeding preparations for "another push southward. To meet this, the Chinese forces south of Taiyuan have mustered almost their entire strength, and a major battle is expected shortly—Central News, Rev. R. T. Henry. of the Methodist Mission Hospital in Soochow, who arrived here this morning from Yiching, report that the Chinese engineer of the Soochow University Hospital had informed them that Allen Hall and the gymnasium of the Soochow University Hospi were bombed during the big Japanese raid on the city at the beginning of this week.
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