A Chinese column is attacking key points along the Chengting-Taiyuan railway in Shans, it was reported here last night. Shangehangtsun and Kwanlukow were said to have been captured.
Another unit of Chinese troops in Shansi, the same reports stated, raided Yentsckou, west of Yangchwan, where they tore up railway. tracks on a bridge.—Havas, Chungking Aided by Amer n Red Cross Chungking, Aug. 27.
The American Red Cross has presented US$10,000 to Ate. Wu Kuo-chen, Mayor of Chungking, for the relief of, civilians rendered destitute by the Japanese bombings on August 19 and Mr. Willys R. Peck, Counsellor of the United States Embassy. yesterday forwarded the money with a letter} les pressing American sympathy. foreign committee will assist Mayor Wu in the distribution of the! relief funds—Reuter.
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