Hankow, May 2. Chinese mobile columns are now most active in Hopel province, with the forces operating in Northern Hopei, in the angle between the Peiping-Hankow Railway and the Peiping-Tientsin Railway, causing the Jupanese especial anxiety, according to Chinese reports received here today.
'The El' aese troops who occupied Laishui,.n' North-western Hopel, west of Kacyeitien, on the Peiping-Hankow Railvay, are' stated to have moved nort! -eastward, cutting the Pelping-Hankow Railway at Kaopeitien, Cho-choy and Lianghsien, 'They have also blown up the Livliho River railway bridge, between Chochow and Lianghsian.' Chinese troops are said to have occupied Chochow on April 29, but to have withdrawn later when the Japanese rushed up reinforcements.
'Meanwhile, the Chinese mobile units which occupied" Yungehing, south of Peiping, between the two' railways, fare reported to be moving north: with a view to cutting the railway at Lonfang, between Peiping and Tientsin, The main body of the Chinese mobile forces, Chinese despatches assert, is fourteen miles from Peiping, bhut the vanguards have advanced to within seven miles of the ancient capital Meanwhile, Chinese mobile columns are said {0 be harassing the flanks of the Japanese forces all along the highway running from Nantung northward through Jukao and Tungtal to One Chinese detachment is stated to be attacking Yenchen from the east, while the main body of the Chinese forces 1s holding the Japanese north of Yenchen,—Reuter,
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