Taiyuan, Dec, 7.
Japanese detachments mopping-uP in the Chungtiao' Mountains range, in south-western Shansi, were making rapid progress, according to field reports reaching here, One of the detachments which defeated stragglers at Hsichiapo was advancing quickly toward Shangtzu, east of Siahsien, while two other units crushed stragglers near Wanshantsur and Machiamiao, eight kilometres west of Tientaotsun, Meanwhile, the main force of the Japanese army was continuing its advance towards Hsienshan and When Signor Alfieri presented his credentials to the Pope as Ambassador to the Vatican, His Holiness is said to] paid warm tribute to Italy, who, he said, "thanks to the wisdom Government; is preserved from He declared that this neutrality placed Italy in a favourable posi-to ite in the re-establish-of true peace—Reuter.
Tungehin. Swift action of the Japanese caused the Chinese to commence a general retreat—Domei_
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