Preceding a dawn of darkest hue in which a ragged line of red focussed the outline of the lower river as if The American forces also received yesterday an intimation from the Japanese that an offensive was sbout to start between their lines ani the Eight Character Bridge.
Dashing down an! alleyway from Range Road, twenty Japanese M. yesterday surprised the troops in the Pantheon Theatre and took the building with a loss of six of their men through machine-gun fire. Up to a late hour last night according to the information received by the "North-China Daily News" from a reliable source, the fourteen remaining men were still holding the building.
The Pantheon Theatre is in Chinese territory in the extension of North Kiangse Road, parallel to and not far from Haskell Road. The sortie has placed Japanese troops nearer to the Forth Station than have been for some time.
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