Nanking, Sept. 27.
The recent retreat of Chinese troops from the Tsanghsien and Pao-tung line en the Tientsin-Pukow and Peiping-Hankow Railways was described in well-informed circles as 'The withdrawal was said to be the completion of the second period of Chinese military "plans, "devoted mainly, to "exhausting" the strength of the' Japanese forces, Since September 25, it was stated, Chinese troops along' the two rail" way lines have been falling back in an orderly manner to their originally Prepared defences lines, The prepared defence line, it was said, stretches from the vicinity of Chengting, about 70 miles south of Paoting on the Peiping-Hankow Rellway, to the vicinity of Chuan: backen, south of Tsanghsien on the Tientsin-Pukow line—Central News.
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