Peiping, Sept, 15.
Following their new offensive to the south of Peiping along a line west of the Peiping-Hankow Railway, the Japanese claim to have captured Kuan, thirty miles south of Peiping and the key point of the Chinese positions on the south-west bank of the Hun river, this morning.
Severe fighting preceded the fall of Kuan, The offensive was launched yesterday along a nine-mile front with the object of turning the flank of the Chinese forces which, for three weeks, have held up the Japanese advance along the Peiping-Hankow Railway at Lianghsien.
Crossing the Hun river under cover of an artillery and aerial bombardment, the Japanese advanced in a south-westerly direction against the Chinese lines stretching east of the Railway, from Changancheng through Yangtsun to Kuan, The Chinese vigorously resisted, but the Japanese advance was only temporarily delayed, Japanese cavalry, ploughing through muddy fields in the face of hot machine-gun and rifle fire, played a conspicuous part in the action.—Reuter.
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