Shanghai, Dec. 10.
'About 60 per cent.' of the 1,098- kilometre Canton-Hankow Railroad has been abandoned by Chinese forces, leaving only a section 448 kilometres long between Lukow in eastern Hunan and Shacehow northern Kwangtung being operated by them, according to the "Shanghai Mainichi" yesterday morning.
This caused a serious handicap in the transportation. of military supplies from the south, the paper said.
Out of a total of ' 24,000 Chinese employees. of the railway, 100 were Killed while 10,000 deserted thet posts during the Japanese operations in Hunan. in September, according 0 the daily.
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