Five Japanese detachments wore operating in Shensi to-day, By nightfall on Thursday, following a. Gay's drive, they had' occupied the following villages:
Santaoyen, twelve _kilometr north-west of Hochu, in Shans Hungyen, twenty kilometres north of Ruchu, beyond the eastward bend of the Yellow River; Tachantsun and Siaochantsun, both west of, Hochu.
Five Japanese units, effected the crossing, under a withering fire from Chinese machine-gun nests on the western bank of the river. The detachments launched the attack on receiving information that General Chu-kuo's troops_were plannit counter-attack at Hochu.—Domel Tungkwan Control Peiping, Mar. 11.
Although no troops have yet becit sent across the Yellow River there, Tungkwan, an important railway station at the meeting place of Shansi, Shensi and Honan Provinces, under Japanese control, a Japanese military spokesman announced to-day.
Dungkwan station, he added, been reduced to a shambles and Chinese batteries on the south bank of the River have been completely silenced.
Following the intensive ombard= ment' of Tungkwan by a motorized unit" on March fpokesman'sild, trame on the Lungs Hal Railway lis been suspended this point." Strong. Chinese, detenre works, the officer said, were demvlihe ed by the bombardment-—bomel, Chinese Comment Hankow, Mar, 11, An official communique issued here to-day reports that the Chinese tated a Japanese attempt to. cross the Nelow iver tion, the Japanese: launched" an af-"After Intensive. artillery. prepara-
tack on the Chinese positions on the southern bank of the Yellow River tinder the cover of smoke screen but they. were repulsed by the Chie nese, 'The Japanese plan' provided, the Chinese declare, that the troops should cross the Yellow River simul taneously in the vicinity of Yumen= Kao, on' the frontier "between the provinces of Shansi trid Shens), and at. Fenlingtu, Mutsinty, - Menghston view of the Intensive fire of the' Japanese. batteries, which wore {o-make the Chinese positions on the southern bank of the Yellow iver Untenable, "railway traffic, between Tungkuan and Loyang had temporarily interrupted, 'On the' Peiping-Hankow railway ud' the "Tientsin-Pukow front. there was a relative Full In the operations yesterday and this mornings It. ik Reported, There were only, minor skirmishes between Japanese troops {nd Chinese Irregulars in the vicinity Of Tingyuan—Trans-Ocean,
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