Peiping, Nov. 2.
A convoy of ten river boats taking 300 Japanese wounded to Tientsin from Paotingfu were attacked near Hsingan on the morning of Oct. 31 by a force of several hundred Chinese troops using trench mortars and machine-guns, alleges 'a Japanese military communique to-day.
A detachment of the Transport Corps accompanying the boats landed and engaged the Chinese for five hours until relieved by reinforcements from Paotingfu. The boats escaped to Tientsin. Several boats. the communique adds, carried red-cross flags. Hsingan is 60 miles. south of Peiping.
The three-week deadlock north of Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi, remains unbroken despite desperate Japanese attacks against Chinese positions in the Hsinkow Hills.
Nanking carries on in spite of 80 air raids on the city by Japanese aeroplanes and this is how the capital does i Upper pictures show In the eastern sector, the Japanese Below are, left, the Sun Yat-sen tomb covered with bamboo scaffolding to hide the brilliant Ax Qug-outs constructed alonz the main raid the main raids. blue roofs, and right, the Nanking pow are advancing steadily. One force is pi ut which has been one of the principal targets of Japanese attacks, said to have reached Tseshih, on the railway, 50 miles from Taiyuanfu.
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