London, Oct. 23.
Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand woman, who is attempting to improve on Mr. H. F. Broadbent's record for a flight from Australia to England, passed the Australian airman today. He himself left Lympne yesterday morning to beat her England-Australia record.
Miss Batten, was forced to land at Mezze aerodrome, near Damascus yesterday afternoon by a thunderstorm, took of" for Brindisi at 2 o'clock this morning, G.M.T. and arrived at 90. Mr, Broadbent arrived at Athens at 11.35 this morning. He left for Baghdad at 12.45—Reuter. impede the Japanese advance, the Chinese are said to have destroyed the bank of the Tubal River, flooding the countryside between Changchuang and Yucheng.
In the Peiping-Hankow Railway zone, a Japanese military communique claims the capture of 500 horses, 2,000 carts, fourteen artillery pieces, 3,000 rifles and a train-load of ammunition—all allegedly abandoned by the Chinese at the railway bridge across the Chang River in north Honan.
The chief success claimed is in northern Shansi, where a Japanese report from Yuanping, says Japanese troops broke the resistance of the Chinese Communist forces in {he Hsinkou mountains and resumed their southward drive on Taiyuanfu, the provincial capital—Reuter,
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