The Chinese have systematically destroyed section of the Canton-Hankow railway in order to prevent a possible Japanese advance northward from Canton along the railway, according to Chinese reports received here today.
The section of the railway which has "been destroyed is reported to extend from ¥ingchanwan station, north of Canton and south of Pachiangkou, to Lienchiangkou sta-Mon, south of Yingteh.
Meanwhile, Chinese mobile units. the reports continue, are very active in the vicinity of Chingyuan, west of the railway, and also at Pachiang-Kon, where it is claimed Chinese mobile forees total 100000 well-equipped men.
Yingteh, a town on the railway, add the reports, is now in ruins as result of repeated Japanese aerial bombardments.—Reuter.
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