Chinese troops under the com: mand of General Vu Héueh-chung, the newly-appointed commander-in-chief of the 3rd Group Army,: are stubbornly resisting the Japanese advance northward along the Tlentsin-Pukow Railway towards Hsuchowfu.
The two. opposing forees, according to Chinese reports received here today, ore at present exchanging artillery fire across the Hwai River north include, besides his own Manchurian troops "and those formerly under General Han Fuchu, one division each of Kwangsi and) Szechuen troops.
The Japanese column which occupied Tingyuan is at present advaneing towards Halywan, a town eight miles south-west of Pengpu, where there are a number of missionaries, mostly American, General Li Tsung-Jen, Commander in-Chief of the Chinese forces on 1 Tientsin-Pukow Railway, " has immed his determination to offer thie strongest possible resistance to the Japanese advance on Hsuchow!u.
General Vu Hsueh-chung, whose troops axe bearing the brunt of the Japanese southern drive on Hsuchow> tu, was Governor of Kansu at the time of the Sianfu revolt, At the beginning of the present hostilities, his troops were transferred. from Kansu to southern Shantunc to defend the Tsinietao area, but follow: {ng the evacuation of Téinanfu they were shifted to the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. Reuter.
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