Important Towns in Southwest Shansi Recaptured; Japanese State Chinese Disorganized in Wuhan Chungking, Jan. 11.
'OMeial Chinese military dispatches, teeeived here from Sian today, claim that Chinese forces have recaptured Chihsien, Puhsien and Taling, important towns in. southwest Shansi, fu the east' bank of the Yellow River, The Japanese, the reports further claim, are retreating southward direction of Hotsin. which is situated north of the confluence of the Fen and Yellow. rivers.
'The Japanese pressure in Shenst from' the east bank of the Yellow River has, the dispatches add, been eased as a result of this change in the situation—Reuter.
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