It is interesting to note that the FPeiping-Suiyuan Railway, one of the main lines of communications of the Japanese forces operating in Suiyuan and Northern Shansi, runs at an average' distance of only ten miles from the foot of the bills in which the above bands have taken up their residence. A sudden dash at night down to the railway, the tearing up of the track and return to the hills before dawn, would, one would have imagined, have been a very simple and obvious manoeuvre. Yet not once has this been attempted, and the Japanese have not even troubled to keep fortified observation posts in the plains. Not once has there been any report of any interference with the railway, indeed, passenger trains are already running along it to Kalgan.
This is symptomatic of one of the mest striking omissions in the whole of the Chinese military operations in the North: their complete failure to destroy any of the railways.- Quite apart from the fact that they have met with comparatively little serious Soochow, Oct. 25.
Soochow continues to be the centre of attack for planes in this area. Saturday we had a number of bombs dropped near the station, but little damage was done. The anti-aircraft placements have broken up the planes' dives to low levels. No bombs have been dropped within the city during this month, but the objectives have been the railway and the transportation facilities, on which considerable damage has been inflicted.
Reports come that the railway station, bus station and launch office in Ngkiang, twelve miles from here, have been destroyed bombs. Refugees continue to pay a heavy toll as the boats and trains on which they are travelling are continually Two of the three Marist Fathers, Brothers Ca! were released during the middle of October, lor lays. nrado y Pas and Banes, who having been held by bandits
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