The Archive · 1938

Guerillas Active Along Railways

Newly-Formed Units Harass — Japanese Rear

Hankow, Sept. 11

Using Wutsin, on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway north-west of Taihu, as their base of operations, Chinese mobile units in the triangle area on the border of Kiangsu Chekiang and Anhwei provinces are conducting large-scale guerilla warfare in.the Japanese rear, according to Chinese reports.

The guerillas are said to be chiefly active along the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, the Grand Canal the Nanking-Wuhu Railway, and various highways in the area.

These mobile units are reported i include the new Fourth Army. the South Yangtze" vanguards, the "East anhwei" vanguards, the loyal National Salvation Army, and also tegular troops of. the Chinese ational army and numerous volun teer self-defence corps.—Reuter

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