Tientsin, Sept. 18.
Fierce Aghting is in" progress in North China following the launching by the Japanese of their major often atrotched between the Peiping-Han-and Tientsin-Pukow rollways.
'A severe battle is now raging on a smile front, stretching. from "the mountaing west of the Pelping-Han-Railway to a point 30 miles west of Tents, threatened with envelop result of swift. Japanese thrusts" south-westward seress the tiles at the deepest point and ye miles elsewhere, and have halted fnly'on the banks of the narrow but deep and swirlly-moving Chuma River, twelve miles from the rall= way.
th ition, the Japanese _centee es that, afer rouing four Chinese Wislons. it has attained line west tthe walled town of Kuan, the key-point' of the, Chinese positions onthe Fouth-west bank "of "the Mun river which "Japanese: troops are reported have occupied yesterday.
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