Hankow, Mar. 26, With Chinese, field common personally directing operations at the front and believing that attack the best defence, the Chinese. forces on the Tientsin-Pukow Tallway front Fave "launched general offensive, recording to Chinese reports received j[here.. Fighting' Is said" to. be- going fon at. present inthe vicinity. of Taierchwang, Tsaochwang and Liogyi, in south-east. Shantung.
Japanese shells felt inside the ity walls of Lingy! yesterday as Japanese forees began an attack In the nelghbourhood. of" Sankewangmiso and Huehiachwang, Chinese troops, under General Pang Ping-hsun, offered stiff resistance, {Chinese despatches state but Just they. were beginning to show sans weakening under the "relentless pressure. of the Japanese, columns feommanded by General Chang Tze fe hung, former Mayor of Tientsin, Junced a drive against the Japanes right flank and eased the situation, Chinese Claim Victory: months." The victory is alleged to have been gained on March 24 in the hills in the vicinity of Tipu, north+ feast of Hslaoleng, near Mokanshan.
,, According to ' Chinese reports, Japanese forces belonging to the 18th division from Wushien, on the south bank of the Taihu Lake, after occupy ing Anchl, advanced south-westward {to attack "Hslaofeng with the, inten Hon of forming a junction with the Japanese troops at Sunklapu, south fof Hsuanchen, and then advancing 'lalang the Wuhu-Tunhs! highway to the important city of Ningkwo. 'The Japanese 16th Division, the reports state, was checked at Tipu' in He attempt to advance on Hsiaofeng, "Simultaneously, the Chinese forces Wukang, south-east of Mokanshan, are said to have moved westward to feneirele this division, After a bloody encounter near Tipu, the Chinese claim, the main body of the Japanese {roops retreated in' the direction of Anchi_ and Szean, but about 1,000 [Japanese troops were surrounded in the hills in the vicinity of Tipu and wiped onl. The Chinese forces are stated to have captured 000 rifles and 40 machine guns.
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