About one half of Hankow is included in the area designated by the Japanese Government where Japanese forces will refrain from attacks to insure the safety of foreign property on condition that the Chinese forces do not make use of tt for military pur-Poses, a spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office declared yester day. He said the area comprised the French Concession, the old British, German and Russian Concessions, the Customs House and the Bund near them. patches from a Japanese advance base revealed,., 'The column,' which had successfully overcome the vast natural obstacle in the form of the flood waters of the Yellow River pouring south from breaches in its embankments east of Chengchow, reached a extending from Pukow to Chouklakow, in Honan, by Friday, the reports said, Tu its westward progress from undisclosed point on the Lunghai railway line, this column captured Taling and Hwalyang, directly south of Lanfeng, on Monday, the dispatches
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