Tienisin, Oct, 2.
Supported by field artillery and planes, Japanese troops this morning attacked Tehchow, the first important station on the Tsinpu Railway line from the Hopei-Shantung border. The main body last night was encamped four kilometres north of Tehchow. A few hours earlier, Japanese Army planes bombed a train at the Tehchow station preparing to pull southward. At least 20 bombs, says an Army communique here, found their objective, blowing the train to smithereens, The Chinese forces in and near Tehchow include "remnants" of the 117th, 118th, 116th divisions, and the 29th and the 39th Armies, totalling in all 50,000 men.—Domei.
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