Peiping, Sept. 13.
With the approach of dry weather, the Japanese are preparing fora new offensive in Hopel afong. a line west "of the. Peiping-Hankow Rallway.
Large quantics of Ordnance. am. munition ad other supplies are be-Ing concentrated onthe northwest bank of the Hun Fiver, opposite the Chinese positions at Kuan, thirty miles south of Petping.
Hundreds "of pontoons are being bute fu readiness for an attempt to cress the river, which the Chinese fre. expected - vigorously to oppose, fines the success of the operation would endanger the Chinese defences on the Peiping-Hankow railway.
"rive thousand cavalry and 2,000 ether: troops encamped. in Peiping moved towards the new front during the night.
Meanwhile, Japanese attempts to pacify the countryside round Peiping ave met with scant success; Japan-fosse aircraft, are. almost dally called fu {9 Domb concentrations of guerlfas at points close to the city, but it reported that the chief victifis of the bombings have hitherto been non combatant villagers.
Weeks ago the Japanese deprived tne Chinese. police of their arms A precautionary measure, but gexliy they were compelled to rearm '000 to assist In. the mainten Seace in the western nuburte Peiping, where Uiere is considerable "At east 1,000" guerrillas are roam~ Ing. the Wstern hills under the eomand' of the well-known bandit chieftain, Liu. Kwel-tong, and many Shantung coast harassing Chinese During the. last three days, four Chinese. junks have been. destroyed bby the Japanese and navigation between. Tsinglao. and "Haichow has! been totally. disrupted, One aircraft carrier and Ave warships-are now anchored off the coast, Using Chenkushan as a temporary ppaval base—Central News.
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