Sinyang, Sept. 23. the Japanese continuing g their relentless drive toward:
the Peiping-Hankow Railway, the sound of gunfire is mo plainly audible here.
Three-quarters of the population of Sinyang have already evacuated, while the majority of the remaining 10,000 desert: th city at dawn and return at dusk because of Japanese' air In the latest visit Japanese planes dropped 12 bombs, buf cause only slight damage.
The Catholic Mission was hit by several bombs on' Septemb 12 although flying eight Swastika flags.
Five bombs fell in compound, demolishing a school and wrecking a hospital but miraculously missing the church. Five refugees were killed.
The Lutheran Mission escaped unscathed.
All foreign missionaries here are safe, but a certain amount of anxiety has been aroused by the lack of news for an entire week from the missionaries in Hwangehwan (Kwangchow), east of Sinyang, and Kwang-shan, 12 miles south-west of Hwang-chan.
At Hwangchwan, there are three Americans at the Luthérah Mission, namely, Mr, Edward Sovik and Miss Hilda Petterson, from Chicago, and 'Miss Clara Peterson, from Attawater, Minnesota; four German sisters at the Catholic Mission, namely, Sisters Kruse, Westermann, Klar and Friedrich; and a' Canadian, Mr. Ernest Davis; a New Zealander, Miss Marian Pówell, and an' American, Miss Ema. Sullivan, of the China Inlind Mission. m"
At Kwangshan there are Mr. and Mrs. Eellesta Americans, at the Lutheran Mission.
The only foreigner remaining at Loshan, thirty miles east of Sinyang, 15 Father Kornfeldt, a Roman Catholic, Mr, Reidar Daehlin, an American missionary, arrived here on Sun-Gay from Loshan, where, he said, 95 per cent of the population had Assault on. Loshan Hankow, Sept. 23.
Japanese troops, under cover of a severe aerial bombardment, on Wednesday assaulted the city walls of Loshan, situated thirty miles to the east of Sinyang, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, according to Chinese reports. Clu Simultaneously, a Japanese cavalry detachment reached'a point to the west of Loshan.
Fighting later shifted to the east end also to the west of Loshan, states a Chinese communique.
Severe fighting raged in the hills to the north-east of Tienchiacheng, it is reported.
Japanese troops penetrated the Chinese defences at Shatzelao on one occasion, it is admitted here, but the hill is reported to have been recap* tured by the Chinese.
Chinese troops later launched an attack on Turtle Hill.
In the course of fighting to the south of Sungshankou, the Chinese claim that they captured ten machineguns, and 100 rifles, and that the Japanese left behind 300 dead bodies—Reuter.
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