Fortnightly if Convoyed From Our Own CORRESPONDENT
South Shansi, June 23.
It is now just four months since the. last Japanese push carried their arms and armies down the poryrce through the Lingshii. Pa: t Lin-fen and Yuncheng to Yellow the River. Another army swept over from the east through Luan and Yicheng, and brought up at Yumenkow on the way to Hancheng and Sian in Shensi, They literally carried everything before them and serious resistance was offered in only two or three places.
But now that four months have gone by there is quite a change in outward appearances, and as far as can be accurately known the Japanese holdings in southern Shansi ni are confined to the railway and the towns along it—empty, desolate towns mey are with every shop closed, and most of the people gone. And in spite of garrisons every few miles 4 ihe railway is being so constantly attacked that the trains come thrcugt by convoys about once a fortnight. Sleepers are pulled up and burnt and the rails cartied off for long stretches at a time.
Five miles and less from the railway the Chinese forces are in possession, and it looks as though they could carry, on the present guerilla warfare indefinitely. The Chinese post office has resumed operations through the eastern and western hills, and after months of Gepandence on hearsay reports one an to some extent get letters through again. A post office under "Japanese ægis has been reopened in Taiyuan, but so far has not succeede getting letters elsewhere.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.