Changteh, Feb. 15.
Japanese military planes yesterday raided Chengchow in Honan and bombed the Chinese n.ilitary headquarters. the railway station a fifty freight cars.
Chengchow, strategic western junetion of the Lunghai and Peking-Hankow Railways, is expected to be the immediate objective of the Japanese thrust to the south. The city has been termed by milita observers the "gateway to Hankow On Sunday the vanguard of Japanese infantry was reported to be within 100 kilometres of the city.
The Japanese air raiders yesterday spotted 100 other freight cars but they did not bomb them because ct their desire to avoid damaging adjacent foreign property, according tu the reports received here.
When the Japanese planes approached, the Chinese were reported to have moved the freight cars to a point near a foreign Catholic church, cotton and flour mills—Domei.
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