Crossing the Yellow River to cut the Lunghai Railway, a newly re-infareed Japanese column launched an attack on an unnamed Chinese stronghold. according to a Domei report received here yesterday from Peiping.
The Japanese forces which pushed their way to the north bank of the Yellow River after disposing of all Chinese guerillas active in Southern Shensi were reinforced recently by 3 large detachment from Japan.
Preparations for further advances across the Yellow River had been in progress for some time, the report revealed. When a dispatch was received of the fall of Liulin, strategic point on the Peiping-Hankow Railway ^n Honan, intercepting the retreat of the Chinese south to the Wuhan di trict, the order to cross the Yellow River was given, the report said.
Railways Tokyo, Oct. 10.
Japanese naval aircraft raided Canton this morning and bombed military establishments, according to a message from Hongkong tonight A separate naval air unit bombed various places along the Canton-Hankow and Canton-Kowloon Railways.—D:
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