The Archive · 1939

Pinghan Tunnel Damaged

A tunnel of the Peiping-Hankow Railway, at Wushengkwan, is said to have been badly damaged by Chinese mobile units.

This has caused a holding-up of all trae on the railway between Hankow and Sinyang, states a Chinese dispatch—Reuter, Yellow River Ferries embed A Japanese Army Air Base in China, July 21.

Intense aerial activity was displayed by the Japanese army yesterday afternoon as a scries of dive-bombing operations were carried out against ferry points along Yellow River.

The town of Mengtsing, where a large Chinese troop concentration was seen in the process of crossing the Yellow River, was attacked, as well at the Tichshihtu ferry point, on the north bank of the Yellow River, off Loyang. Ten junks in the process of carrying troops across the Fiver were sunk with their occupants,—Domei.

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