Tientsin, Sept. 18.
Fierce fighting is in progress in North China following the launching by the Japanese of their major offend sive against the Chinese forces stretched between the Peiping-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow railways.
A severe battle is now raging on a 70-mile front, stretching from the mountains west of the Peiping-Hankow Railway to a point 30 miles west of Tientsin.
The Chinese forces based on the railway are threatened with envelopment as a result of swift Japanese thrusts south-westward across the Hun River at widely-separated points, Cable Mended: Service
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