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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1988,

Page.

MASS HANKOW

RAIDS

ROUND

DEFENCE AREA

Attempt To Cut Chinese Communications

Heavy Fighting Continues In Loshan Vicinity

Hankow, To-day.

Altogether 74 Japanese aeroplanes participated in three raids yesterday in efforts to disrupt Chin- ese communications north and south of Han- kow, according to Chinese advices reaching here.

With the advent of good weather the Japanese have resumed extensive bombing of the railways, in an effort to halt the flow of troops and muni- tions behind the Chinese lines.

YANGTSE RIVER

FIGHTING

Hankow, To-day.

With the Yangsin River ran-

:

First raid yesterday

a.m., the second at 9 am

third at 1.20 p.m.

at 7.30 and the

attacked

the

Invading aircraft Peiping-Hankow Railway in the vicinity of Sinyang and also bomb- ed the Canton-Hankow Railway near Hoshenchiao, south of Wuchang. Reuter.

LOSHAN OCCUPIED ning between them, the strong

Hankow, To-day, Chinese defence line on the north

It is officially admitted here that bank is facing a detachment of the Japanese troops have occupied Loshan after several days', fierce Japanese cavalry which appear-fighting with the Chinese, who ed on the south bank, Chinese abandoned the city which has been

military reports state.

The river, which rans southward, was previously spanned at this point by a pontoon bridge, but the structure, as well as the highway leading to it, is reported to have been destroyed in order to delay the Japanese advance on the south Yangtse front.

reduced to ruins.

Yesterday the retreating. Chinese forces launched a violent counter- attack on the town and were engaged in several hours' battle în which both the Chinese and the Japanese suffered heavy losses in troops.

However, the Chinese are occupying their former positions out- now side the city and are consolidating

for another counter-attack to cut The Chinese military authorities communication lines of the Japan- express confidence that they will ese forces which are now threaten- be able to hold the Japanese at the ing the Peiping-Hankow Line in the river for at least two weeks.

Sinyang area.

FUCHIKOW BATTLE

Gun-fire is still audible in Sin- yang and Chinese troops continué flowing through the town eastwards

In the meantime a battle for posto the front. session of Fuchikow, on the south bank of the Yangtse opposite Tien- chiacheng, is going on with ' thè Chinese stubbornly resisting.

TIENCHIACHEN BATTLE

Furious fighting is also reported In eastern Hoian the opposing in the Tienchiachen region where, forces are still fighting at Pali- it is alleged, gas-bombs are being miao, west of Lohan. One detach-employed by the Japanese investing ment of Japanese troops is report- Tienchiachen. The city is being air- ed, to be moving southward towards

raided daily.

Tunghau from Kaifeng-Reuter.

Meanwhile, the Japanese operat- ing north of Tehan have made no progress for the past ten days" "In their attempt to reach the gateway to Nanchang-Our Own Correspon

300 CASUALTIES IN

HUPEH RAID dent.

Hankow,

day

BITTER FIGHTING

Yangsing, To-day. More than 300 civilians, includ

While a bloody engagement is ing women and children, were killed or maimed at Sungfow, in north proceeding at Tienchiachen on the east Hupeh, yesterday when Japan-orth bank; Fuchinkow, on the south bank across the river, is the scene ese bombers staged four aerial at-

of a fierce combat. ck on the town'

Both sides are suffering heavy

The eastern part of the town and casualties. areas immediately outside the north_Fighting on the outskirta of gate now lie in smouldering ruins. Yangsin is limited to skirmishes have not yet develop- A church and a primary school were which, so far. among the buildings razed.--Cen- ed Into, major engagements. tral News

Central Newa.

WHAT ABOUT: ME7 When Joan, the hippopotamus got her morning drink, George, the giraffe her next door neighbour at the London Zoo, looked over in the hope of getting a share. (Copyright,

Fox).

LOSHAN IN RUINS

HANKOW; YESTERDAY, MOST OF THE CHINESE

SEMI-OFFICIAL TROOPS, IT IS REFORTED IN MESSAGES FROM THE FRONT, HAVE VACATED LOSHAN FOL LOWING CONTINUOUS AR- TILLERY AND AERIAL AT TACKS BY THE JAPANESE, WHICH HAVE · REDUCED THE TOWN TO RUINS,

taken up new positions, and are being violently attacked. The Japanese are now being held up across a small river..

Japanese artillery are, how- ever, concentrating on the new Chinese positions, supported by aircraft.

Chinese troops are pouring through Sinyang to the front while refugees are fleeing from the city for Hankow and other towns.derd

Meanwhile, according to offi- cial messages from the Kiukiang Fires are reported to be burn-area, positions of both Chinese ipg furiously in the town, which and Japanese forces south and has been besieged by the Japans north of the Yangtse remain un- changed. Our Own Corres- The Chinese troops have pondent

ese for almost a week.

STOUT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

TO CONTINUE OPERATION

Repairs

way and it is the intention

management to evolve from the pres -runs a greater and more modern institution

All outstanding accounts will be liquidated promptly. Creditors are notified

to rest easy on this score.

The full staff remains on duty.

ROBERT E. BEDDOE, M.D.,

Superintendent.