Today the Japanese army released a Douglas passenger plane to fy a dozen foreign correspondents over the historic mountain to demonstrate that they de hold it. The plane on the journey there carefully kept to hills with never a flat piece big enough to call a field. Every 50 often a mountain stream cuts a [deeper valley than usual but these! fare now dry, the beds a mixture of sand and rocks.
If the Japanese army ever intends the Kinhan railway to avoid pot shots clean up this country, all of which from guerilla-held territory, landed is still in guerilla hands, they will at Shihchiachwang and after refuel-need an enormous number of men ling followed the Chengtai railway jand must be prepared to take heavy over the Niangtzekuan pass to Tai-losses. Perhaps it will be cheaper to place a cordon between the Kinhan, Talyuantu is still a depressing railway and the mountains west of sight. The Japanese army claims and leave it in guerilla hands. that when it was occupied on Novem-'The only objection to that is thal ber 7 last year it contained only 700 the coal supplies for which the people and that now it has a popula-Japanese army has come to North tion of a hundred thousand. It may China, be so but during three hours spent Speaking of more troops a good in the town T saw no one above the many have arrived in North Chin colle and small shopkeeper class and According to reliable eye-witness: not so many of the latter either. the transports which arrived at Tangku a short while ago from Talyuantu Conditions Japan brought 30,000 men plus many Before hostilities Taiyuanfu had a horses and much equipment. population of Japanese that could be
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