The Archive · 1939

Waning Front

Chungking, Mar, 30, Fighting on the Wuning front continuing in the hills five—miles north-east of Wuning, according to a Chinese despatch, Chinese forces in south Honan province, it adds, have launched three assaults on Sinyang, on the Peiping-Hankow railway, with Chinese artillery heavily shelling the Japanese troops "holding out inside he lly At the same time, Japanese alr-craft are reported to be bombing the Chinese troops surrounding Sinyang. The Japanese are also stated to be rushing reinforcements fom Yingshan to support their Sinyang defendsrs.—Reuter.

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