Chungking, Jan. 14.
Japanese forces concentrated Jsouth-west Shansi in the vicinity of Hotsin, north of the confluence of the }Fen and Yellow rivers, have moved northward in an attempt to capture FYomentu, on the Yellow River, cording to Chinese dispatches.
Severe fighting, the dispatches state, sat present taking place on. the Jcastern outskirts of Yumentu.
"There ate. Indications that major JAghting is likely to break out again. in Hunan. Interviewed by Reuter today, Chinese military quarters were! reticent, only going so far as to admit, that "the situation north of Changsha is becoming tense."
Extensive, Japanese military pre parations are said to have been progress in Hunan recently, including the construction of a military airfield Jat Tungchen and of a milliary road between Tungehen and Yochow.
Under cover of heavy artillery fre, Japanese infantry and cavalry in the North River sector of Kwangtung Hsunehed an offensive on January 13 the direction of Tsunghua, north Jeast of Canton and east of the Canton-Hankow Railway, according to official military dispatches received here! today.
Fighting, the dispatches state, is at present taking place at a point a few] miles south of Tsunghua—Reuter, jatlain Barracks Demolished Japanese naval aircraft demolished Joarracks at Watlam, in southwestern Kwangsi "in raids "carried out on} Thursday, the headquarters of the] [China Sea Picot announced in a com= Jmuniqué issued yesterday afternoon. iewellin also. was bombed. by' the raiders. Military trucks sighted in the vicinity of Watiom were damaged by machine-gun fire, the statement said.
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