The Archive · 1938

Battle for Sinyang

Shanghai, Sept. 25.

Deployed" in attack formation, Japanese troops yesterday were gradually edging westward along the undulating south Honan plains between Lgshan and Sinyang, Domei dispatches from correspondents with the _J advancing forces said.

Chinese, in the meantime, were rushing troops and equipment to the hillocks east of Sinyang, the stratesically vital junction of motor highways and the Peiping-Hankow Railway.

Chinese tanks went into action against the Japanese west of Loshan fon the night of September 21; but

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