Desperate Chinese Effort to Check Invaders Changteh, Feb. 14.
Driving rapidly southward along the Peiping-Hankow Railway. a Japanese tank unit entered the walled town of Chihsien, Honan Province, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, according to field dispatches received here this morning.
The tank corps entered the town by the northern gate and was followed closely by the vanguard of a Japanese infantry column.
Capture of Chihsien, forty kilometres south of Changteh, brought the Japanese flying columns within 100 kilometres of Chendchow. strategie western junction of the Peiping-Hankow and Lunghai Railways and termed the gateway to Hankow.
Yesterday the swiftly advancing Japanese columns executed a flanking movement and routed 15,000 Chinese troops under Gen. Wan Fu-lin.
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