The Archive · 1938

FIGHTING REPORTED IN SOUTH HOPEL

Hankow, Feb. 11.

With the Japanese reorganizing their forces on both the northern and southern fronts before delivering a final attack on Hsuchowfu, there is little activity in the Tientsin-Pukow Railway sector at present While the Japanese forces in the southern section of the railway are rushing preparations to advance westward from Hwaiyuan, their base, towards Hofei, Japanese engineers have completed repairs to the Yellow River Bridge north of Tsinan in order to bring down fresh reinforcements from Tientsin for a drive southward towards Hsuchowfu.

Meanwhile, some fighting is at present going on in soüthern Hopei, in the vicinity or Tsingfeng, which the Chinese claim to have recaptured. Chinese troops are now stated to be pressing on towards Nanlo, about midway between Taming, where the Japanese drive in south Hopei started, and Tsingfeng.

"Shanghai Evening Post" was carried out by two Chinese terrorists who came into the Concession from the Settlement by bicycle, and hurled a potato-masher type of hand-grenade at the main entrance of the "Evening Post" offices. The grenade exploded with great force on the pavement outside the main entrance, scattering fragments over a wide area, and alarming many Chinese and foreigners in the vicinity. The only damage done to the "Evening Post" building was the breakage of a single pane of glass in the entrance door, and luckily no casualties were caused among those who were walking along Avenue Edward VII at the time of the attack or among those inside the "Evening Post" building.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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