Construction of a "red route" rail-Way from Paoki to Lanchow, in Kansu, thereafter linking with a Soviet railway now in construction has been halted by disruption of traffic on the Lunghai Line and repeated bombing attacks by Japanese aeroplanes, according to a Domei message from Shihchiachwang.
io the source of railway has been cut of, the message claimed. The Chinese forces had been transporting rails and ties which they had removed from the emu section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway between Kioshan in South Honan and Chengchow in and near the Japanese-occupied areas.
These were being transported westward on the Lunghai Railway to build the projected line which the Chinese are attempting to connect with a Soviet Railway now under construction. The Chinese have discontinued the removal of the rails and large quantities of these materials are heaped in the station compound &t Sian, the messages stated.
Japanese forces completely disrupt ted traffic on the Lunghai Railway at Tungkwan on the eastern Shensi border following a sustained artillery attack from their positions north of ihe Yellow River, the reports said. Chinese troops were forced to abandon repeated repair operations when withering Japanese bombardment demolished the railway bridge outside the East Gate of Tungkwan.
The Chinese were forced to reduce passenger service on the Lunghai way to a split schedule on two branch lines, one to Wentichen, east-emmest station in Honan, and another between Chuanti and Paoki. A dis tance of 10 kilometres around Tun, kwan is being traversed on foot,
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