The main force of the Chinese troops in North China is now €oncentrated west of the Imperial Canal where they are strongly entrenched Large bodies of Chinese forees are also occupying positions near Kweiteh; halfway between Kaifeng and Hsuchow and the present seat of the Shantung government. General Sung Cheh-yuan's army is at present on the march from southern Hopei and northern Honan eastwards to the Tientsin-Pukow railway in order to reinforce that front.
Chang Tso-pin, governor of Anhwei province, has arrived at Hsuchow where he has described the position in northern Anhwei as being by nó means &s hopeless as surmised in other quarters, The Japanese have nct captured Hotel and fave had' their progress stemmed as the result of stubborn Chinese resistance along the railway running north from Nanking.
There is a lull in operations on the-Peiping-Hankow railway line as the Japanese are apparently trying to bring off a decisive encounter in the Tientsin-Pukow line area first.
The position on the Hangchow front is reported here as unchanged fleet of 26 Japanese airplanes yesterday. In the course of a fight with Chinese pursuit planes, one of the raiders was brought down at Wan. nienhsien, in north-eastern Kiangsi, near the Poyang Lake. The seven occupants of the machine were instantaneously killed.—Kuo Min.
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