THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 14, 1988.
MYSTERIOUS WITHDRAWAL OF CHINESE TROOPS IN SHANSI PROVINCE
Peiping, To-day.
The Japanese military authorities profess to be mystified by the sudden withdrawal of Chinese forces from positions held for several weeks south of Taiyuanfu, particularly from Tingyno and Lingshih, where there has been no fight- ing for some time.
The Japanese have launched no offensive but several thousand Chinese troops have begun to withdraw south.
The Japanese military also report] that most of the Central Government troops which have been in Shansi for some months have now with- drawn south of the Yellow River in Honan province, leaving South Shan- si in the bands of provincial former Communist troops-Reuter.
FIGHTING RESUMED
and
Hankow, To-day.
FRENCH CREW'S
GRAPHIC STORY OF WRECK
Paris, To-day.
On the Shansî · front and along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, fight- Members of the crew ing has been resumed after the Ja- panese had concentrated more than of the French steamer 20,000 men in the towns of Kwang-“Guaruja, which was teh (Shantung) and Tzechin. wrecked on the rocks Japanese objective is to establish near Almeria, arrived contact between the Japanese back in Paris yesterday. troops on the Peiping-Hankow Rail- way and those in Eastern Shansi. They told a tale of many hours vain battling against The attack is being supported by mountainous seas and of the * column advancing on Shansi gradual forcing of the steamer along the branch line of the Pel-
on to the rocks. ping-HankowW Railway running from Shichischwang to Taiyuanfu.
ARMY SPREADING
Several members of the crew were carried overboard by the wayes and dashed against the rocks which towered several hundred feet above the scene of the wreck.
While up to the present, Japanese troops have operated only along the railway lines, they are now at-
The crew managed to scramble they tempting to also occupy the hinter-half way up the cliff where land in order to rout out the spent the night huddled on a ledge Chinese guerillas.
from which they were rescued the following morning. by Spanish The Japanese advance in Shanel coastguards.—Trans-Ocean. is mainly directed against the holy mountain of Wutaihan, one of the five Buddhist places of pilgrimage in China, which is reported to be the main base of the Chinese gue- rillas.
Remarkable success of Chinese guerilla operations is · reported from the south of Hopei province. where a number of towns are said to have been freed from Japanese occupation.Trans-Ocean.
NORTH ATLANTIC AIR TRAFFIC
Paris, To-day. The technical committee to deal with the organisation of North Atlantic air traffic is meet- ing here. Its chief task will be the selection of the type of aero- plane to be used in French air
REFORM OF THE traffic to North America.
LEAGUE
Warsaw, To-d
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