Chungking, July 18.
Considerable Chinese troop activity reported in Chinese dispatches received here today.
Chinese troops on the night of July 11, they declare, attacked the Japanese troops stationed on the southeastern outskirts of Paoting, in Hopel.
The Japanese are said then to have withdrawn into the city, closing the city. gates. The following morning, they add, the Chinese troops with drew.
Other Chinese units are said to be "extremely active" west of Peiving, raiding the Japanese positions in the vicinity of Tzehsien and Shilitze= taokou.
'AL the same time, Chinese troops near the 'Hupeh-Hunan. border are' Feported to have recaptured Tungshan, Chinese van-guards, the dispatches continue, are presently approaching Yanglousze.
In north' Shantung, they conclude, Aghting ts going on at Yuchen, where the Japanese garrison "has withdrawn within the city walls."—Reuter,
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