Hankow, Mar. 3.
Newly-organized mechanized units are being used by the Chinese forces} nan attempt to check the Japanese advance in Shansi, These units, ac-Jcording to official Chinese reports, fare now engaged in heavy fighting in [the vicinity of Linfeng, Chiaccheng and Hungtung, towns on the Tungpu Railway, which runs diagonally from central Shansi to Tungkwan, just Outside the south-western corner of the province, Attacking from both sides, the Japanese are trying to beale through the Chinese flanks on a section of {he oilway sti held by the "defenders.
According to official Chinese despatches, five divisions "of mixed Japanese, Mongol and Manchoukuo troops have advanced from Paotow, at the western terminus of the Peiping-Suiyuan Railway, in the dlrection of Tungshang, 75-miles to the south-west. The Manchoukuo troops forming part of this force are staled have mutinied and to have joined the Chinese. The mutineers are com-/manded by General Liu Sheng-wu.
Fighting is "now taking place Tayingpan, near the tomb of Chao Chun, a Chinese beauty of ancient times, who died broken-hearted in the desert when she was married to powerful Mongol Prince to prevent 8 Mongol invasion of China Proper.
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