Peiping. Nov. 5.
'A. motorized Japanese "force fe~ ports having reached Hsintlentoun, Tour' miles north of Taiyuanfu. this afternoon.
The fate of Taiyuanfu was _vir~ tually sealed when Japanese troops occupied Yutzu. onthe railway, seventeen miles south-east of the city yesterday afternoon, 'A Japanese force, advancing from the north. reports the capture of Chinglungehen, only. ten miles from Toiyuantu. this morning.
The rearguard of 5,000 Chinese troops is preparing to give battle just south of that place. but the
be abandoning the Taiyuanfu arca, Japanese. communique claims the capture of Changteh, the chief city in North Honan—Reuter.
Chinese Rally at Taiyuan, Nanking, Nov. 6.
Chinese despatches this evening from Taiyuan Indicate that Chinese forces from the north and cast Shansi are' concentrating near Tal yuan where reinforcements are also arriving. SUM resistance to the forthcoming Japanese offensive is thus Indicated.
'Rumours of the fall of Taiyuan this morning are discredited, 'Japanese pressure on' Changtehfu, in north Honan. is admitted. The railway staff to-day" evacuated Changich station. Japanese troops are attacking the Chinese defences yound the city, which is still held by" Chinese troops. Chinese reinforcements are. moving up from Chengchow to support the Changteh
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