Shihchiachwang, Nov. 5.
"With two separate columns gradually converging on Taiyuan. the northern force last night drove Chinese defenders from positions at Kaichengchen, 32 kin. north of Taiyuan, field headquarters here announced this morning. That force continued south after taking Hsin-
Hsien yesterday morning.
Another announcement says twenty motor cars and five trucks filled with Chinese troops evacuating from Taiyuan-fu were bombed by Japanese planes 40 kin. south-west of Taiyuan. Another flight bombed remnants of a Chinese force of 1,000 near Chuchou. south-west of Hantan on the Peking-Hankow railway.—Domei.
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