Hsuchow, Jan. 8.
Owing to the severe cold, no major fighting was reported yesterday on the northern and southern sections of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway front.
The Japanese troops who have occupied Yenchow, midway between "Tsinan, the Shantung provincial capital, and Hsuchow, the junction of the Tientsin-Pukow and Lung-Hai Railways, have made ro further attempt io descend southwards, The city of Tsining, on the Yenchow-Tsining branch of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, is sti in Chinese hands.
In the southern section of ti Tientsin-Pukow Railway front, Japanese troops invading Ming-kwang, 71 miles north-west of Hsuchow and 38 miles south-east of Pengpu, in northern Anhwei, after being repulsed by the Chinese defenders, are concentrating at Chuhsion, 31 miles north-west of Pukow -Kuo Min.
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