Pounding away incessantly at the Chinese forts, in Sinyang, Monday afternoon a Japanese detachment established itself in the mountains several kilometres southwest of this key city on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, repens received yesterday by Domei from the front said It is believed that the Chinese troops occupying the walled city destroyed the railway bridge spanning' the Shih River south of Sinyang.
Chinese troops on both the northern and southern banks of the Fu River retreated Monday before Japanese the purely Hungarian districts to Hungary, An agreement in principle upon this was reached, but it is understood that the Czech delegation is contesting the accuracy of the map produced by the Hungarians for the parleys.
The most difficult question now is that of the fate of Bratislava and Kaussa (Kosice), it is learnt.
Hungarian quarters feel confident that they will get Kaussa but are disappointed over the fact that German troops have occupied the bridgehead of Bratislava and several other points on the left bank of the Danube.
Count Paul Teleki,¢ Hungarian Minister of Education, told the' press that negotiations are being carried n in an "atmosphere of mutual sympathy."
"Both the Slovaks and Hungarians," he said, "have waged several wars together and have jointly fought for freedom. Making a gesture of goodwill, the Slovakians have handed over to us the city of Ipolysag and a secon of the city of Satoralja Ujhely. We highly appreciated this."—Havas.
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