Chungking, Jan. 6 The resumption of the Japanese miliary "initiative "in North and South China is reported in a con. rmunigué issued here today. tu South China on the island of Weichow. south of Pakhoi. 300 Japanese soldiers were landed by a ship anchored off the island station. Chinese military circles no great portance ix attached to this Tanding Tine, the Chinese declare. it will not hiring about "any chance in the general situation in South China, In. the neighbourhood of Hohow, the Jananese attempted to cross the West River, but were prevented from doing s9, according to Chines: reports, be heavy artillery fire. In Tiolent Aghting around Tsengshen Chinese troops. succeeded in encirel~ ing. the Japanese within the city and cutting off all their communien-Lone with the outside world, reports reaching here claim. The Jananese errison, it lo added. is confining Iteelf to'dafence oenins: the Chinese attacks and Is making no attempt to break through the besiegers—Trans Ocean.
Chinese (old Up Shans! Drive Chungking, Jan. 7.
Severe Aghting is now going on in west Shansi, where, on Christmas Day, Japanese forces, in five columns, pushed westward simultaneously from their bases on the Tungpu Railway towards the Yellow River, according to Chinese reports received here.
The reports add that Chinese forces in West Shansi are putting up 9 stubborn resistance in the mountains on the east bank of the Yellow River, while Chinese artillery, on the west bank (the Shensi side) of the river, heavily shelling the east bank in forder to prevent the Japanese from crossing the river.
Early in December, the reports. continue, Japanese " troops on the railway started to move westward. Their advance, however, the reports state, was halted by heavy snowstorms. The storms subsided on December 15, after which Japanese troops are said to have continued their westward advance.
The first Japanese column, with Fenyang and Hslaoyi as bases. declare the reports, aivencec in a south-westerly direction, one detachment attacking Shiblou'ané another tacking Shihsien.
Vanguards of this column are reported to have appeared in the vicinity of Sinkwan.
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