Two thousand Japanese reinforcements sent to Taierchwang from north-east, via Lanlingcheng and Hungshancheng, along Taierchwang te the Weihsien highway, have been prevented from reaching their destination by the interception of Chinese forces.
The Chinese forces attacking Hsuanchen, in Anhwei province, near Wuhu, are making rapid head the communique continues. It that day before yesterday the nese troops were only three metres from the walled city were "causing great to the garrison forces The gates of Hsuanchen are closed and fighting is going on in the vicinity of its walls Optimism is growing here as the result of a report that newly-trained troops are fighting well on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway front, In fact, many military observers believe that the showing of these soldiers better than that of the best veterans, since many of them are young and healthy and have been educated in high school and college.—Reut Japanese Extend Lines Crossing the Shantung-Kiangsu Lorder southeast of Taierchwang.
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