Hankow, May 26.
The Chinese yesterday evening Jounched a counter-attack on the town of Lanfeng, which a force of some 5,000 Japanese troops had entered after heavy fighting earlier -yesterday, Chinese reports state. The town is completely surrounded by Chinese troops on three sides and north of the city only a narrow yap the Yellow river remains open, Is asserted—Trans-Ocean, Threat to Kaifeng:
Peiping May 26, Kaifeng, capital of Honan, on the Lunghai "Railway. is now being threatened by the' Japanese, accord= {ing {o oficial Japanese claims.
Before the Chinese armies' were! able to reform west of Hsuchowfy, a. Japanese communique says, a Japanese detachment which crossed the: Yellow River on the Hopei-Shantung. border marched ina south-westerly direction and captured. after a sharp] Aight, Lanfeng railway station, 30) miles east of Kaifeng.
Part of this detachment is now sato to be ubout 15 miles from Kuifeng, where it has severed the railway. the west in the direction of Pohsien, on May 23.
On the same day, a Japanese jeavalry column in "this "vicinity
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