Hankow, Feb. 13.
The Japanese threat to the Lunghai Railway has become very grave as a result of spectacular successes on the part of the Japanese forces moving southward from North Honan and South Hopei, and northwards along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
Unless the Japanese advance in South Hopei is checked, the Lunghai Railway stands in danger of being cut at Kaifeng, capital of Honan and twice in its history capital of China.
At the same time Siansiang, which is only forty miles directly north of Chengchow, the key to Hankow, is threatened as a consequence of a swift push down the Peiping-Hankow Railway. which has brought the Japanese very near striking distance.
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