Shanghai, Sept. 27.
Introducing a new active front in the "many sectors comprising the present Japanese onslaught upon the tities of Wuhan, Japanese troops. on Sunday began crossing. the Yellow. River at Yuank, In the south-eastern extremity. of Shensi province, Domei Feports relayed here by way of Tokyo yesterday. "The apparent Japan~ ese Objective was Loyang, Chinese Stronghold in, northwestern Honan.
Serious Aghting, the dispatches said, was going on both banks of the river. Chinese troops, in guerilla formations, were active on the northern bank hear Yuanku, but were being gradual-eliminated in Japanese mopping Up operations in. which artillery" was Blaying 8 major pat, the reports 'Meantime, Japanese oficial and private dispatches denied that Chi-hose troops had reoccupied Shihchiachwang, western terminus of a tine ranching' off the Peiping-Hankow Railway' to Taiyuan in Shansi. "Shih chinehwang Is in Hopal province.
"According to Chinese claims made Hankow, the town had been recoupled. by the Chinese after 9 sanguinary mutiny of pro-Japanese Chinese troops, The town was calm, the Domei reports asserted.
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