Peiping, Sept. 6.
Injecting a new major factor in the Sino-Japanese test of military strength in the present campaign for the possession of the Wuhan cities, Japanese forces along the Lunghai line, inactive since the Yellow River floods in June, on Sunday resumed operations, Japanese military authorities here revealed today.
Secrecy was, however, maintained regarding the starting point of the new reported Japanese offensive, as [well as its direction. Japanese officers claimed that "considerable progress had been made by this "mystery column" which, they said, had successfully overcome the resistance offered by Chinese troops encountered on the way.
Coupled with the recent Japanese. operations in Shansi and northern Honan, resulting in the seizure of various Yellow River fords, the new movement is expected here to exert serious pressure on the Chinese deployed along the southern portion of the Peiping-Hankow Railway, south of Chengchow, and along the Lunghai line between Chengchow and Sian-—Domei
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