While official Japanese\circles are sifent on the matter and it is dim cult to get real. first-hand information, reliably learned that the Japanese garrisons at Minghong and Pelhsingching have Moon increased og a result of Chinese gueritia activity in those areas, Large groups of these Chin guerillas, working under orders from. Hankow, are reported to be stationed, in the vicinity of Sungkiang and Quinsan, the Kiangwan area guerillas are believed to come from Quinsan, Polhsingching have been increased as are the guerillas who. frequently attack small Japanese garrisons on the western olitskdrts of Shanghai:
About 25,000 "fully trained and farmed Chinese soldiers, of the 60th and 66th Divisions, have been reorganized into guerilla units, according to usually reliable Chinese sources. Recently, according to these same sources, these troops joined, forces with other mobile units operating in Pootung and success fully captured a hilly region near Tenghsien (Pootung) called Neukuochi; they were reported to be holding the area without much difeulty. Supplies continue to reach the various guerilla units by way of the! angehow Bay.
"Gueritias Arrested July 23.
search, in Yangtszepoo area early Thursday morning, Japanese authorities arrested large groups Chinese, according to a Chinese report. yesterday.
The search was conducted against suspected guerillas who were ported to have entered the eastern district ready for an uprising on August 13, anniversary of the Shang-hal war.
Chinese residents in Yangtszepoo unable to produce Japanese passes were arrested, The house-to-house search was made In Wayside Wharf area, Thorburn Road, Pingliang Road, Sungpan Road and Ningkuo Road.
In Ningkuo Road, where Japanese sentries were stationed, over 100 Chinese yore said to have been con-Veyed toa military depot in trucks. Thirteen trucks were used in other Yangtszepoo areas to convey other arrested Chinese to Japanese military headquarters, according to the report.
Tungchow Threatened July 24.
The river port of Tangidacha, the port for Jukao, is in the hands of a large body of well-armed Chinese gueritins, the "North-China Daily News" was informed yesterday by the foreign representative of a company interested in cargo business in the Lower Yangtze. Several river vessels ave been forced to turn back, he said, and indications were that' the port of Nantung (otherwise known as TTungehow) was being threatened.
Two Portuguese vessels normally run between Tangkiacha—also known Tsintengkong—namely, the Faro and the Ave Marla; the former vessel is the faster of the two. The Faro arrived off the entrance to the hat hour on July 21, but was stopped and turned back' by two Japanese! warships anchored there.
The Ave Marla, however, arrived Jong after dark and actually crept
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