The Archive · 1929

Determined" Attacks

Harbin, Nov. 2.

"After severe fighting near Fuehin today the Chinese were compelled to retire 50-or 60 miles up the Sungari river in the direction of Information from Taheiho states that two mines exploded -under the central dynamo of the electric pawer station, and that when the town was without light So troops commenced a' bombardment from the other side of the river.

Messages indicate a recrudescence of Soviet military. activities both on the Northern and. Eastern fronts of Manchuria, According to Chinese sources. the Soviet launched attacks at Tung-ning, to the southward of Pograni chaya twice daring the night of October 30 and again at dawn on November 1, but were repelled. Three Soviet planes bombed Fuchinhsien on the Sungari, Ten Soviet gunboats and a battalion of cavalry appeared Tater st Whangehiatun on the Amur and attacked the Chinese troops. Severe fighting on this front is reported to be cantinaing.

Meantime Harbin is filed with rumours that the Reds are being heavily reinforced and are planning to raid and destroy sections the tracks of the Chinese Eastern Railway.

Information received here. regarding the blowing up of a train yesterday is that it was a goals which was involved. The at Kilometre 143, between un and Selinho, when a bomb exploded beneath it, The locomo and si wagons were badly damaged and two of the train stalt were seriously injured, 'A message from Japan yesterday stated that it was a passenger train which had been blown up and that two people had been killed and

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