Hankow, Jan, 15.
Oficial Chinese sources here again claim the recapture of Tsining. A graphic account of yesterday's fighting has been issued as follows:
"Launching a surprise midnight attack across the frozen Grand Canal, ihe Chinese forces, which had withdrawn on the afternoon of January 12, with the support of re-inforcements, overwhelmed Japanese troops guarding the gates of Tsining, and recaptured the strategic city in western Shantung.
"The Chinese troops, which defended Tsining after a seesaw battle, in which ihe Chinese and Japanese forces attacked and counter. attacked, were finally compelled io withdraw from the city on January 12, when Japanese forces smashed north and west gates of the city wall and entered the city. Tsining was completely occupied by the Japanese the same night.
"As Tsining holds the key to the Chinese left flank on the Lunghai Railway, the Chinese high command were determined to recapture the city at any cost," the report continued.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.