Chungking, Apr. 12.
"I don't think the Japanese either intend or are able to cross the Yellow River in an advance on Sian in the near future," General Chiang Ting-wen, Chairman of the Shensi provincial government and Commander of the 10th War area (embracing that province) told Reuter in an exclusive interview today.
"If they want to come further west in North China, it is more probable," he said, "that their strategy will be to advance from the direction of Hankow, via Siangyang; but the topography is such that they will have to fight their way through mountains and pay such a price for Sian that the venture' will not be At present, it is stated, fighting is progressing along the outer dykes of the Yellow River.
The Chinese, in their surprise attack on Kaifeng, are reported to have set fire to Japanese dumps and food depots near. the South gate and damaged the water tower of the City Power and Light Company, thereby flooding many areas in the southern district of Kaifeng.—Reuter. worth while, "We have been preparing defences for many months, and have a success sion of Chine: ies so placed that, if one is broken, another fresh force must be encountered by the Japanese, and so on foreign military attache, who visited our defences recently, told me on his return that he thought the Japanese would be fools to try to take Sian."
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