Shihchiachwang, Nov. 5.
With two separate columns gradually converging on Taiyuan. the northern force ast night drove Chinese defenders from positions at Kaichengehen, 32 kim, north of Tale yuan, field headquarters here ounced this morning. That force continued south afler taking Hsin-Hsien yesterday morning.
"Another announcement says twenty: motor cars and five trucks filled with Chinese troops evacuating from Taiyuan-fu were bombed Japanese planes 40 kin. south-west Tolyuan. Another flight bombed Femnants of a Chinese force of 1000 near Chuchou, south-west of and Hantan on the Peking-Hankow rally way—Domei, March to Muang Peiping, Nov. 6.
The capture of Taiyuanfu, capital of Shansi, was announced in unomleial [Japanese quarters here this morning.
'With the fall of this city, which! brings to a climax the bitterest cam paign of the hostilities in. North' China, the Japanese advance towards the Yellow River on all fronts is expected 10 speed up—Reuter, Chinese Retreat Cut Of Tientsin, Nov. 6.
'With Aghting in progress under tne walls of 'Taiyuan, one Japanese detachment this "morning occupied /Hsiaotienchen, 12 kin. south of the' city, thus cutting off the Chinese retreat. Two other Japanese detachments at 820 o'clock this morning} [reached the banks of a rivulet flow= ing within sight of the northern wall Taiyuan. Divided into five fights, [Japanese miliary aeroplanes this morning continued bombing the city's defenders.
Reporis brought by these alreratt, says a Japanese communique Issued here, indicated that the attempts the faltering units to retreat to the southwest were checked by the Chinese. special "supervisory corps."—Domet.
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