Fierce fighting is reported in Chiese dispatches to be in progress in the vicinity of Tsiyuan, Honan, about 28 miles north of Loyang, as the Chiese try to check the westward thrust f the Japanese forces. Tsiyuan is midway between the Yellow River and the Honan-Shansi border.
The Japanese troops, who are operating with Sinsiang, at the junction of the Peiping-Hankow and the Taokow-Chinghua railways, as their hi ase, are reported to have had their dvance halted'as a result of the stout opposition offered by the Chiese.
Some dismay was caused in Chiese circles here Jast night by rum-urs that Kaifeng, capital of Honan ai ud twice in its history capital of hina, had fallen to the Japanese. Anxiety on this score was, however. relieved with the arrival of dispatches stating that the rumours were founded.
To capture Kaifeng, which is on the Lun ghai Railway, the Japanese soud ye to cross the Yellow River, but so far they H ye made no ous attempt to surmount this rear natural obstacle to their pro-
Any attempt to do so, Chinese quarters here assert, are bound to entail much loss of life as the Chinese forces on the south bank of the river are strongly entrenched.
Chinese reinforcements are being rushed to West Shansi to stem the advance of the Japanese right wing.
—Reuter.
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