Japanese Drives in Shensi, Honan Feared: Planes Concentrated at Tungkwan Chuwu, Mar. 14.
Apeba Japanese thrusts into Shensi and Honan, Chinese troops are constructing strong defence works at every ford across the Yellow River, reconnaissance planes reported to-day to the Japanese command here.
Numerous Chinese aircraft were also reported to have been Y concentrated at Tungkwan, the pivot of the Chinese line paralleiing the Yellow River.
Station buildings, tracks, railway bridge and water-tanks at Lingpao, 60 kims. east of Tungkwan on the Lunghai line, suffered heavy damag? in yesterday's artillery bombardment from the northern bank of th Yellow River, Japanese authori here claimed to-day.
Chinese defence works on the right bank of the river were destroyed, it was further asserted. The Japanese forces are operating from Pinglu, as their base.—Domei, have managed to keep the Japanese troops on the run. They raided Hsiuwu, west of Sinhsiang, on March 11 and. when the Japanese forces rushed to meet them from Sinhsiang, Chinese detachments on the Peiping-Hankow Railway pressed towards Sinhsiang, thus sandwiching the Japanese.
At the same time, another Chinese column has been converging of Ponai, or Chinghuacheng, which is the eastern terminus of the Taotsing Hangchow Highway Cut Railway.
The Chinese forces in northwestern Hankow, Mar. 14.
The Shanghai-Hangchow Highway in the vicinity of Nankiao, south of Minghong, has been cut by Chinese mobile columns.
These columns, which have been very active in southeastern Kiangsu province, have occupied Chwansha, Nanhwei and Tenghsien, three towns near the Kiangsu sea-coast.
The lull on the Wuhu front still continues for, although the weather has cleared up recently, the snow and rain of the past fortnight have turned the roads and countryside into a sea of mud, hampering military movements, Shansi have been ordered to turn to the southwest, in the direction of Chiaochen and Wenshui, in order to barrass the Japanese colum operating in the western part of that province, based at Fengyang.
These Chinese troops, under the dual command of General Fu 1 former Governor of Suiyuan, and} General Ho Lung, Red Army leader, were originally ordered to advance to the east towards Taiyuan, capital of Shansi province.
They had actually reached a point only 20 miles from Taiyuan, when the order to turn to the southwest was received.—Reuter.
On the western section of the Taotsing Railway, taking place.
Chinese forces, heavy fighting is by strategic moves,
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