Peiping, Nov. 1.
Japanese troop: advancing upon Taiyuan, the Shansi pr vincial capital, yesterday occupied Hsinhsing station on the Chengtai Railway, 12 kin. west of Yangchuan and 42 kin. west of Niangtze pass, Yangchuan was occupied on Oct. 30, when a vast quantity of munitions, seven locomotives and 73 freight cars were captured, according to an announcement here. The arsenal and other military establishments in Taiyuan, another communique claimed, were destroyed yesterday in air raids. Chinese troop trains were later bombed at Yutze, a railway station south-east of Taiyuan while troops retreating westward along the Chengtai line were also bombed and harried.
Japanese forces operating in Honan yesterday captured the Peiping-Hankow Railway bridge across the Hung River, 80 m. wide at this point. Despite difficulty in scaling the steep banks of the river, a communique issued here said, the Japanese forces crossed and drove back 2,000 men of the Chinese 89th Division, who left behind The strength of the Chinese force entrenched at Changteh, the Chinese stronghold in northern' Honan, was placed by the Japanese authorities here at between 5,000 and 6,000 men, with several amoured trains—Domei Tinghsien Recaptured Taiyuan, Oct, 31.
Tinghsien, midway between Paoting and Shihchiachwang on the Pinghan Line, was recaptured by a Chinese detachment on Oct, 29, local military circles learn. The Japanese garrison there fled in disorder in an easterly direction, leaving large quantities of munitions and other military supplies behind.
Tinghsien is where Dr. James Y. C. Yen, a Princeton graduate, started a mass education movement—Central News,
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