Tientsin, Sept. 7.
Strategic Chinese positions near Chienchuntai and Tsingpaikow, approximately 40 kilometres to the north-west of Lianghsiang on the Peiping-Pukow Railway, were bombed by Japanese air units early yesterday morning, Japanese Garrison headquarters revealed to-day According to a spokesman, "great damages" were inflicted on the Chinese who fled "in confusion." Japanese land forces, the spokesman said, Subsequently took over the Chinese position, Machang, to the south of Tang-kwantung, on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, the spokesman asserted, was the "scene of a severe battle as an outcome of which the Japanese forces, commanded by Col. Yaozo Akashiba, occupied the southern bank of the Machang river. At least three Chinese brigades faced the Japanese at Machang bridge, supported by parts of the 25th and 4th divisions of the Central Chinese army, numbering at least 10,000 the spokesman added.—Domei.
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