Peiping, Mar. 14.
Eighteen casualties were suffered by a party of employees of the South Manchuria Railway Company when Japanese engaged in repair work were attacked by 400 Chinese Comwnists near Sinhsien in northern Shansi on February 22, according to delayed reports reaching here to-day.
The railway crew encountered the Communists after ea repair Shansi. Civil resistance campaigners barricaded themselves in Sinhsien.
Japanese Army reinforcements established contact with the garrison in the walled town and were expected fo have the situation under control in a short time—Domel
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