Tientsin, Sept, 14.
Hsingchichen, ten kilometres south Of Tientsin, on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, was captured shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by the Numada and Nagano detachments of the Japanese Army, headquarters of the North China Garrison announced at 10 o'clock this morning.
A spokesman for the Tientsin Gar-risen revealed this evening that the large body of Chinese troops which fled deeper into Shansi Province from Kwangming, near the Charhar border last night, was composed of three divisions of the Shansi Army in addition to a detachment of Chinese Communist troops, In a further announcement made by Garrison headquarters this afternoon, it was disclosed that the Chinese troops, engaged in constructing entrenchments on the right bank of the Yungting River, were retreating to Changancheng, approximately 20 kilometers south of Huangtsun, near Peiping.
Japanese forces, the announcement added, also drove the Chinese from their positions in the walled town of Kuan, in Hopei Province, at noon to-
The announcement also stated that 20 military supply trains composed of more than 200 cars, were destroyed by Japanese aircraft which bombed the railway junction of the Ping-Han and Cheng-Tai railways at Shihchiachwang, in western Hopei. The trains were filled with Chinese soldiers and military provisions including arms and munitions. One bomb dropped by a Japanese plane, the statement said, made a direct hit on a gasoline tank, causing a terrific explosion—mei,
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