To Lunghai Railway; Fierce Fighting Takes "Reformed Govt's"
Place Over Fifty-Kilometre Front Attitude Declared Hankow, Apr. 25. FINE loss of Tancheng, historic 2,000-year old walled city twelve miles north of the Lunghai Railway, after extremely severe fighting is admitted by the Chi inese here today. The Chinese troops who evacuated the city are now said to be holding positions south of Tänchëng, in the vicinity of Hungchuapu ("Red Flower Village").
At dawn this morning, following the arrival of reinforcements, the Chinese Command ordered a counter-attack in an attempt to stem the Japanese advance southward towards the Lunghai Railway.
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