Towns on the Canton-Hankow and Canton-Kowloon Railways mere again bombed by Japanese planes yesterday.
At Yingteh, north of Canton, ten Japanese machines dropped altogether fourteen bombs shortly before noon, Later they unloaded fifteen more missiles at Chuklang, a town Zurther north of Yingteh.
More than ten passengers a in train, which happened to pass throügh Chukiang during the raid, were killed and wounded by ma-wahine-gun fire let loose from the raiders.
Meanwhile, four" other Japanese raiders bombed, the Canton-Kowloon Railway. As a result, four sections of railway tracks near Lintsin station, 103 kilometres south of Canton, were blown up by explosives.
Taishan, about 100 kilometres south-west of Canton, was also bombed by two Japanese planes at 825 o'clock yesterday morning. Eight missiles were dropped in the city, demolishing more than 20 houses and Killing. scores of civilians, while six more were yacoba at the Kungyi station. on the fisinning Railway.—Central News.
The Japanese military authorities were reticent regarding their move-mets yesterday. The Army spokesmen seid that plans for a general attack were rapidly nearing completion and that, weather permitting, an advance on all fronts might be expeded. He denied that the attack would take place to-day. Japanese troops, he said, had occupied key positions on Friday night, and yesterday, these positions were consolidated but he declined to define what these positions were.
Throwing all their weight into the the Japanese According to the Chinese spokesman, the Japehese drive was made along the Lluhang-Tazang highway, where many tanks and armoured cars wore reported to have been massed, Chinese defenders, withdrawn a short distance from the village, counter-attacked towards the evening, but the fortune of war was still undetermined last night.
The Japanese advance on the highway greatly relieved the pressure on the units cooped up in the salient at Kechiapailou, the spokesman said. Chinese troops fighting in front of Chenchiahang, to the northwest of Kechiapailou, were also withdrawn a short distance to a new line in the rear.
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