Linfeng, Dec. 29.
Japanese troops continuing extensive mopping-up operations. against troops remnants. of General Yen Hsi-shan and guerillas in Shansi captured three more towns in a three-way drive, according to field dispatches received here: last night.
Detachmentis operating along the highway from Linfeng to Taring Cüptüred Pubsien, midway between the two towns, and were pushing onward toward Taning, the messages said.
French Council on behalf of the French authorities, and in 1927 he was voted an expression of thanks from ratepayers at the: annual meeting. Continuing as Chairman during the difficult period which embraced the 1927 troubles, in 1929 he again was recipient of the ratepayers' appreciation of his services.
The "Fessenden Fifes"
It was during that year that pleasant incident, inspired by Mr Fessenden, occurred which will be long remembered in the history of the foreign garrisons which came to Shanghai during the 1927 crisis. Attracted by the drum and fife band of one of the British regiments, he presented to the Fourth U.S. Marines a set of fifes known as the "Fessenden Fifes," and an unusual bond of Anglo-American friendship was established.
Previously these units, which started their drive from the vicinity of Siangling, ten kilometres southwest of Linfeng in south-western Shansi, broke through Chinese positions at Tumentsun and Heilungkwan, important towns on the highway.
Other units which set out from areas near Hotsin, near the confluence of the-Fen and Yellow Rivers ín south-western Shansi, captured Chienchiachen, ferry point on the Yellow River, and thus hampered the retreat of the Chinese, the messages claimed.
Attacked from the north, east and south in -western Shansi, the Chinese troops are finding their routes of retreat cut off one by one and are threatened with "complete encirclement, the dispatches státéd.
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