Heavy rifle and machine gun fire was said to be audible in Pootung at about 3 am. on March 26, says a Chinese report. The shooting lasted bout ten minutes. The cause was Earller in the day, tt was reported Chinese elreles that the reorgan-{ation of the Chinese mobile units in Pootung by the Japanese had not been completed.
While Tao Shih-sung and Li Tse ming, commanders of Chinese irre Sulars at Nanwel and Chuensha re-Spectively, have accepted Japanese appointments as magistrates of the two places respectively, the Chinese commander of the mobile unit. Fenghslen has so far refused: to sur The Fenghslen unit Is reported to consist of regulars of the Eleventh Army. Preparations are being made by them to attack the villages outs side Tenghsien, including Shing-hung, according to the report.
"Martial law was enforced by the Japanese in the vicinity of Tang higo, Pootung, early yesterday morning, when a house-to-house search Was made in the area to the west of the Pootung highway, ae-cording to a Chinese report. The martial Taw' was lifted at about 10 am,
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