Hankow, Mar. 5.
Chinese and Japanese troops are facing each other across the Yellow River above Loyang and Kunghslen.
Japanese artillery is sporadically shelling the Chinese positions on the south bank, but no attempt to cross the river has yet been made, The waterway is" comparatively narrow above Loyang and. Kung-helen, but the current is extremely Visitors to the south bank say that the Chinese have an elaborate system of defence works which are ing strongly manned.
Tu Shansi, fighting continues on the Tungpti Railway, north of Houma, but no noteworthy develop: monte have occurred.
The Chinese counter-offensive on the Peiping-Munkow Railway stated ty military headquarters hhere to be making progress.
Commenting on the situation in Shansi, the "Ta Kung Pao, influential "Chinese newspaper, emphasized the necessity of reorganize ing the Chinese forees—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.