THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 8, 1938
SERIOUS KAIFENG
THREAT TO DEVELOPING
Attempt To Cut Peiping-Hankow Line To South
Chinese Massing
Forces To Meet Danger
Hankow, To-day.
A serious threat to Kaifeng is developing as a re- sult of the Japanese flanking movement near Chihsien, according to latest Chinese reports from the front.
Instead of driving westward along the Lunghai Railway for possession of Lanfeng, the Japan- ese forces are said to be advancing from Kwei- teh, Yungchen and Mengchen on Chihsien and Luyi.
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One Japanese column is proceeding west through Ningling. It is reported to have occupied Hui- hsien and to be continuing the drive westward on Chihsien.
It is believed that the Japan-1They were engaged by two strony ese are attempting to strike the units of Chinese troops. In the en battle the Japanese wer Peiping-Hankow Railway in the suing
and retreated vicinity
southward, south of beaten of Yenchen, Chengchow, via Chowchiakou. leaving some 100 dead and wound- The Chinese authorities areled on the battlefield. The Chinese making arrangements to check gave pursuit and surrounded then the Japanese advance towards the at Hauchai, northeast of Suihsien, Peiping-Hankow Railway, at the 25 kilometres south of Mingchuan same time intensifying prepara- A Kaifeng report states that the tions to defend the Wuhan area Chinese troops evacuated Suihsien in the event of a Japanese push on June 1. on Hankow after reaching the railway.
'DOIHARA RELIEF EFFORT
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Reuter.
Hankow, To-day.
HALTED AT LUYI
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The Japanese column pushing outcome of which will decide the The Government, who obviously from north Anhwei into east Hofate of the port of Sagunto, and realise the seriousness of the situa- concentrated nan for the purpose of cutting the also of the town of Castellon which tion have therefore Peiping-Hankow Railway south would be completely isolated if the all their available reserves for
insurgents break through the defence of the Teruel and Sagunto In an attempt to reach the Chengchow has been halted
road.-Trans-Ocean. loyalist front at Sagunto. Lunghai Railway, where 10,000 Luyi on the east Honan border.
The Chinese are still besieginį Japanese troops are surrounded north-west of Lanfeng, Japanese troops of the Doihara Division a detachments have started cross-Sanyichai and Chiahotan, north | MEN ing the Yellow River in the vici-west of Lanfeng. nity of Kuatai, according
Chinese reports.
to About 1,000 Japanese troops at Kuantai on the north bank of the Japanese artillery on the north Yellow River are reported to hav bank of the river is said to be withdrawn northward. heavily shelling Chinese positions pose of their move is unknown.---- on the south bank in order to Central News.
cover
a. Japanese crossing at
Chinliukou. Reuter.
HANKOW CANARD
INSURGENTS
Shanghai, To-day CLAIM BIG
ADVANCES
The pur
Teruel, To-day.
A Japanese report from New York states that American cor- respondents report from Hankow that Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek is preparing to abandon Hankow should the Japanese suc- cessfully break through the Chin- ese lines in the Lunghai sector.
This is, however, denied here in to advance on all sectors of the well-informed and reliable Chin-front between Teruel and the coast ese circles. Our Own Corres- pondent.
FIERCE FIGHTING
Chengchow, To-day.
The insurgent troops continued
yesterday.
They were compelled to fight| hard for every inch of ground, however, since the mountainous
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Tension on the Lunghai Railway favours a defensive. still prevails as heavy Japanese| The loyalists have concentrat- reinforcements from Kweiteh con-ed extraordinarily strong forces tinue to strike westward-fiercely in in the region of Sarrion in order an effort to outflank the Chinese at to prevent the insurgents from Lanfeng.
advancing further on the road After taking Ningling, 30 kilóme- from Teruel to Sagunto:
SAGUNTO'S FATE tres west of Kweiteh, a Japanese column pushed further westward It is probable that this sector and reached Shohotsi, east of will during the next few days be Mingchuan yesterday morning, the scene of violent fighting, the
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