Hankow, Apr 18 Reviewing the miliary situation, General Hsu Pel-keng, chit of the Intelligence Department of the Gene frallssimo''s headquarters, declared today that so far an wes known the Stoanese had ranatrred shout one sion ofthe troops operating forth Shans "in the. west. Suiyuan sre, slong the Peiping-Suiyuan Rail way, (0 Peplng.
The division had then been transported by train, via Tienisin and FFinantu, to Welham, on the Teinan= {u-Tulngiao oilway, for transporta: tion in lorries to the Lingy! sector hree-thousand of these. Japanse troops, he said, had arrived atthe Lint front dad: launched an cftensive against the Chinese position waterie Success." pea eneral Hsu pointed out that th: Chinese forces "were continuing to harass the Japanese on the Peiping-
Hankow Railway front in Shans! province, and also in Anhwei and Chekiang provitices, making possible for the Japanese to transfer troops to Shantung for the new offensive.
He emphasized, however, that it was possible for the Japanese to send {veah troops from Japan proper and also from Manchuria, Such a step, he added, would "expose Japan to very grave dangers'
Phe Chinese command, General Hsu explained, were not minimising the importance of the forthcoming operations in southeast Shantung and preparations had already been completed in order to meet any emergency there—Reuter, Shansi City Occupied Peiping, Apr. 18, Culminating a 12-hour drive from Locheng, the Shibuya detachment of Japanese infantry occupied Tun yueheng in central Shansi as 4 Selock yesterday afternoon, the Japanese Army Garrison announced here today, Part of the detachment continued to advance on Shankuchi, Other Japanese units this morning Jauched spirited attack on Chinokowehen, two kilometres north of Fengyang in central Shansi. The town is regarded os a stronghold of Communist. troops.
Japanese troops of the Yulino detachment also were reported to be closing in on Chiaokowehen, after defeating about 3,000 Chinese soldiers at Huanchiakow, about 30 kilometres north-east of Fengyang,
Domei, 8'olock "on "Saturday nit Ma Chan-shan Defeates Suiyuan, Apr, 18, Several thousand Chinese troops under Gen, Ma Chan-shan, with headquarters at Wuchwan, 35 fcllometres north of Suiyuan, were dis~ persed by an encircling drive of the Japanese Hirota, Okamoto and Kunomura units yesterday at Ulan, south of Wuchwan, Scattered by the Japanese surprise attack, the Chinese were re ported to be retreating to the west contusion, with the Japanese forces in close pursuit, About, 1,000 troops under Gen. [Ching Te-chun, one of Gen, Ma's subordinates, separated from the main force and are falling back to the east of Wuchwan, Early this month Gen, Ma fled into the Yinshan Mountains from Kaolungtukow, 100 kilometres southwest fof Sulyuah, after the troops were defeated in an engagement with Japanese columns—Domel.
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