Despite torrential rains, Shien have turned all roads and streets into quagmires, heavy Chinese reinforcements are being rushed eastward to the Loshan sector in an effort to stem the Japanese advance towards the Peiping-Hankow Railway.
Local tension is increase the Japanese forces app) nearer and nearer to Si b which already presents a sad, forsaken appearance.
Loshan, thirty miles east of Sinyang, is said to have already fallen into the hands of the Japanese.
The Catholic Mission here states that, in addition to Father Kornfeld, a German, Father Macheiner, an Austrian, and Brother Henrich Shubert, a German, are also stationed at Loshan.—Reuter.
Fighting at Tienchiacheng It is illustrative however, Czecho-
European Situation At A Glance After a final talk with Herr Hitler, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, returns to London with a memmorandum from Herr Hitler on his final attitude towards the Sudeten dispute.
Full British Cabinet meeting considers: memorandum.
France orders partial mobilization.
Hankow, Sept. 24.
Japanese aircraft dropped 600 bombs yesterday afternoon on Chinese ons north-east of Tienchiacheng, vicinity of Makouhu, Huang-liu, Panehiashan and Sungshankuo, but the Chinese are holding on to their positions, according to a telephone message from the Chinese military headquarters at Tiencbiacheng, strategic fort on the north bank of the Yangtze.
The raid followed a general Japanese offensive on the Chinese defences south of Turtle Hill.
Fighting was extremely severe all day, and at one time the Chinese had io withdraw slightly to a new line in the vicinity of Chiawan, Chichotun and Mengchia.
Subsequently, a Chinese military communique says, 27 Japanese warships steamed upriver from Wusueh in order to join in the attack on Tien: chia cheng, but they retired downriver when heavy gunfire from the Chinese forts sank one Japanese warship and bier three others. two assaults dri the Chinese pete communique also claims
north-west of Wusueh by Japanese land forces were repulsed.—Reuler.
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