The American Consul in Nanking, the State Department statement said, (reports Reuter) reported that Japanese soldiers were entering American property and removing goods, They were also evicting employees of American institutions without giving notice or any reasons for their actions, The report presumably referred to Chinese employees, since there were no reports of interference with Americans, The Japanese probably also hold the view, according to Chinese opinion, that it will be difficult to make any appreciable progress in the sector around the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukow railway as long as the Chinese resistance in the northern sector continues., The offensive against Hankow which is still believed to be one of the objectives of the Japanese will therefore probably not be launched before a junction between these fronts is effected, it is declared here. The belief that a large-scale attack on the Tientsin-Pukow railway is imminent is also confirmed by the fact that the Japanese continually bombed towns, railway stations, bridges and roads on the Tientsin-Pukow and Lunghai railways during the last few days.—Trans-Ocean.
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