The "victories" credited to the Crintne forces bythe. morose press are apparently part of a de-Hiberate attempt to" creviate false reports concerning the situation in the Shanghai area, The Foreign Giice, the Garrison Headquarters, the Central Kuo tang, the Central News Agency, the 1th Route Army Headquarters; the! Chinese Telegraph Administra fud the Ministry of Railways have all received. the following urgent telegram from 'Shat "chinese {oops recaptured. Liuho. yesterday. The loth Route Army at Nanhsiang purposely withdrew when the J ssc troops advanced, having pre-Siously planted very powerful mine which exploded kiling and. wound: ting' hundreds of -the advancing Japanese troops. The 10th Route 'Army, reinforced by. one. di Sader' Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang and three divisions under General Chiang Shek, counter-attacked and with tle. resistance recaptured hsiang and Chenja. ""At nine o'clock this evening the vanguard of the 19th Route Army reached Markham. Road junction and were advancing towards the North Station. The entire Chinese population at Shanghai is getting off fire-crackers in jeelebration of the Chinese victory.
It is believed that this was an attempt on the part of the Mukden-Shannon railway station order employees inside the Great Wall nic among railway
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