Headquarters of the Chinese armies announced that Japanese forces in Shensi were resuming their advance to various ferry points on the Yellow River in an attempt to invade Shensi, the Peiping message' declared, 'A Japanese unit which had been standing by at Hownachen in southern Shansi is now driving westward toward Yumen in preparation to invade Shensi, the message continued.
Another Japanese force which had been operating near Yuncheng in southwestern Shansi was reported to be pushing on Maotsingtu ferry between Loyang and Tungkwang.
A Chinese report quoted by the Peiping dispatch said this Japanese unit now is moving toward Fenglingtu on the northern bank of thei"
Huangho opposite Tungkwang.
The dispatch said that the Japanese forces were "grimly determined" to invade Shensi, the centre of the Communist movement, in an effort to crush Chinese Communist troops.—
Domei,
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