In Shansi province severe fighting was going on in the vicinity of Changtienchen as Japanese ~detechments launched an attack on about 10,000 Chinese troops attached to the 114th and 178th Divisions, according to a message from Shihchiachwany.
Tungkuan on the Yellow River has been reduced to ruins by repeated shelling from Japanese batteries at Fenglingtu across the river in southwestern Shansi, the message said. Traffic on the Lunghai, Railway was said to have been suspended completely since Sunday, with the result that the Chinese forces were able to reach Tungkuan only by motor bed as an isolated city.
A message from an umittisclosed Japanese army bose said army- aeroplanes raided Sian, on the so-called "red route" through Shensi, at 11.45 o'clock yesterday morning. The raiders blew up station buildings and freight cars, cut the Lunghai Railway and inflicted heavy losses on Chinese troops, the message claimed.
Chinese troops at Sian, Tungkuan and Shanhsien were said to be disorganized.
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