Presaging an early determined Japanese attempt to cross the Yellow River in force, four Japanese divi-slong concentrated at Linfeng, in Southern Shansi, are reported in Chinese despatches to-day to have commenced moving westward towards the east bank of the great waterway.
Meanwhile, the Japanese troops in south-western Shansi are said to be making unsuccessful attempts to eros the River at Yumenkou, northwest of Hotsin, where the Fen River lows into the Yellow River; at Ying ho, on the east bank of the Yellow River, opposite Hanchen, in eastern Shensi; and at Puchow, north of Tungkwan, The Chinese Command, according to Chinese sources, Is rushing reine foreements to guard the west bank of the Yellow River along the Shensi-Shansi border. Chinese newspapers to-day continue to feature the success of Chinese mobile columns in Shansi in creating havoc in the Japanese rear and flanks. They also claim the recapture of Kolan, an important city in north-western Shansi south east of Paoteh If the report is true, it means that the rear of the Japanese forces operating *on the east bank of the Yellow River in north-western Shansi threatened.
Japanese claims that Japanese detachments crossed the Yellow River on Thursday in the vicinity of Hochu, in north-western Shansi, and occupied, villages on the west bank of the river, in north-eastern Shensi, are repudiated in a communique {ssued by the Chinese Military Ieadquarters,
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