Shanghai, July 19.
Large-scale air defence' manceuvre designed to test the Immunity of the Peiping-Hankow und the Lunghai Railways to air raids are being staged in Chengchow, according to authori-{ative reports received here to-da Simultaneously, semi-permanent alr-defence fortineations are" being hastily erected in the immediate vicinity' of the Chengchow railway station, The Tenth division of the Cen-(ral Army, the reports added, left Chengchow on July 10 for the North. Two other divisions still remain in the city.
Kwantung Troops Move Changchun, July 13, "We are prepared to resort to the if, further man of the Kwantung Army announcement Issued here toxday. Full preparations, he been garrison in North China "with a view to complete liquidation of the me eident."
Besides going by railway, Japanese troops are' believed to be moving the Peiping area from Jehol motor lorries, travelling via Kupeikow. The troops who are being despatched to North China from Korea are expected to go there via Mukden.
There are no indications of the route taken by the reinforcements, Dut it Is probable that they are proceeding. by way of Shanhaikwan, with "the support of motorized columns which are moving towards Peiping from Jehol via Kupelkow.—Reuter,
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