Hankow, Feb. 14.
After having crossed the Hwai river on Saturday, the Japanese drove the Chinese still further back yesterday. The positions vacated by the Chinese were destroyed b; bombardment lasting several without interruption.
At the same time the Japanese kept pressing forward along the Peiping-Hankow railway. They have succeeded. in taking Tangying. The Japanese have reached the north-bank of the Yellow river in the neighbourhood of Fuyang.
North of the Tientsin-Pukow railway near the town of Lianghsiatien. 30 kilometres south of Yenchow and 150 kilometres north of Hsuchow, the Japanese troops have resumed their activity.
Reports received here state that the Japanese have concentrated no fewer than 4000 tanks along the Peiping-Hankow railway. Also aeroplanes were used in great numbers yesterday on all fronts—Trans-Ocean,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.