The Archive · 1939

Chungking People Urged

(To Evacuate

Chungking, Mar. 4 'The Municipal Government, ina proclamation, urges the populace who can leave the town, to evacuate from Chungking before' March 10, after which the authorities will commence compulsory evacuation, This measure is taken in order to y loss of life and thatthe Japane ere conduct air bombardments on the present seat of the Chinese Na-

Teinglo, at 6 o'clock yesterday after-

Starting from Nantun, north of Tsinglo, a Japanese detachment captured Yunganchen at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon and pushed. ea toward Tsinglo over trails. blanketed with snow.

Other detachments were extending their operations in central and western Shansi, the dispatch said.

Chinese troops retreating from rsinglo were attacked at Fangs in midwestern Shansi by a Japanese detachment which reached ihe town by forced marches after scattering, the 428th Regiment. of the Fist Division of the Central Army on Saturday. Two more. delachinents were rounding up guerillas north of the Fen River—Domel Concerted Attack On Railways Chungking, Feb, 28, Chinese guerilla units In North IChina, ina well. ce-ordinated plan, launched. simultaneous raids on' the night of February 18 on all railways in North China, including the Pelping-Hankow,—Tientsin-Pukow, - Pelping-'Suiyuan, Peiping-Liaoning and Cheng-tai Railways, according to a Chinese report received here.

'Seventeen sections of various rally ways wore torn up and also miles of {telegraph and telephone wires were torn down, the report adds, 'On. the' Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerillas blew up a railway bridge near Machwang and tore rails at Tinghsien, Hsingtal, Shaho, Luaichiu, Chushut and Kucheng, the message continues.

On the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, the Chinese tore up rails at Anling. Potou, Tingkwan, Teangehow and San yuan, it states Chinese guerillas destroyed sections of the Peiping-Suiyuan Railway at Shaho, Changping, Mattachao and Salachi, according to the report, the Peiping-Lisoning Railway, the Chinese derailed a train at Tien: Jchwang and also tore up tracks near JAnting and Weishangwang, the report continues, adding that on the Chengtal Railway, the guerillas destroyed sections of the railways near Tsinghsin, Liangtsekwan and Shouyang.—Reuter,

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