Hankow, Sept. 27.
Japanese forces which' have been ling westward towards the Peiping-Hankow Railway at Sinyang, fare now turning southward effort to penetrate the Chinese line the 'Tapieh Mountain range, Chinese military' dispatches from the front report.
"These troops are joining the Japanese column from "Shangeheng itis Believed that the combined forces will {ty to cross the Hupeh forder "and reach Macheng and Sungpu northeast of Hankow, Sungpu has been subjected to inten days. sive bombing during the past few.
Thus the threat to cut the Peiping-'Hankow Railway north of Hankow is leased considerably following the stiffening of the Chinese line of defence east of Sinyang. Chinese press ports of the reoccupation of Loshan, cannot be confirmed, however.
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