While the situation in west Shansi is said to have eased, reports received here from south Shansi indicate tenseness there.
Since' November 1, according to Chinese dispatches, Japanese artillery units on the north bank of the Yellow River have been heavily shelling Tungkwan, a strategic Lunghai Railway town on the south bank of the river.
Japanese batteries, it is said, fired over 400 shells at Tungkwan on November 3, while on the following day, over 840 shells were fired by Japanese guns on the town.
This artillery bombardment, directed at the south bank of the Yellow River, is said to have continued on November 5.—Reuter.
Hongkong, Nov. 7.
Chinese military establishments in Lungan, Kwoteh, Kweihsien, and Kweilin, all in Kwangsi province, were bombed Monday by Japanese air yuits, according to Chinese reports from Kweilin.
Several dozen bombs were dropped in the south-western part of Kweilin, capital of the province, the reports said. Reconnaissance flights over Hingyeh in South Kwangsi province were also conducted by the Japanese.—Domei.
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