Hankow, Mar. 27.
Sanguinary street Aghting is going on In Tsaochwang, east of Lincheng on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway front, with the Chinese forces "storming the walls of the city, according to
Chinese counter-offensive, the Japan~ which "Atter a successful Chinese military' communique,
ese troops stationed at "Tsaochwang. were compelled to withdraw Into the Chunghsin middle school, est ablished by the Chunghsin Mining Corporation.
"The Japanese troops were surrounded by the Chinese forces and many Japanese prisoners taken, The Chinese captured three out of four city wall towers and also. the water tower of the Chunghsin Mi nye Corporation."
The Chinese general offensive Jaunehed against the Japanese the Tsingp Railway front yesterday {is proceeding well, according to the atest reports from the fighting line to reach here.
Crack Central Government troops taro engaged in the counter offensive, They are assisted by newly. arrived, organized artillery "and mechanized units, equipped with the latest types of heavy field pieces, tanks and armoured cars.
'The central column, operating in the Tsinpu Railway' zone itself, under the command of General Sun Lien-chung, Is slated to have reerossed the Grand Canal to-day and to have reoccupied Hanchwang, which the Japanese captured on March, 19, afler a severe engagement. The Japanese forces are now said to be reliving northward along' the \ralle way in the direction of Licheng.
'To the cast of the central column, another Chinese force under General Tung Eng-po, who defended the Nankow Pass' carlier in the hostillles, Is stated also to have recrossed the' Grand Canal, where the Yihsien branch line of the Tsinpu passes the Canal, and to be now engaging the Japanese forces in the vicinity of Yihsien and Tsao-chwang.
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