Hankow, June 16.
As far as can be ascertained from the "air, "foreign property in Shasi and Tehang appears not to have suffered damage as a result of the recent occupation of these ports by' the Japanese, according to a foreign correspondent who has just returned from a flight over the two cities.
The plane was unable to land owing to damaged aerodromes, in which bomb craters were clearly discernithe Japanese Front in Hopeb, June 12.
Two Japanese units, one of them mechanized, broke into the walled town of Puyanghsien, last Eighth Route Army stronghold in southwest-cin Hopeh, yesterday morning, it was Feported here today.
Another detachment reached a point ten kilometres northeast of the town at 10 o'clock last night and today was reported busy mopping up Communist irregulars in the at Enemy forces were said to have been completely trapped by the ad-vaneing Japanese and their resistance
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