BITTER FIGHTING
STUBBORN CHINESE RESISTANCE
JAPANESE DRIVE
ENCOUNTERS AMID SNOW
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON, January 21
The Peking correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the Lunghai railway is the scene of bitter fighting, amid sleet, snow, and blizzards.
Japanese columns, driving towards the vital junction at Suchow, are meeting stubborn resistance. The weather hampers the delivery of supplies of food and ammunition to both sides.
The Japanese, after- a five-hour battle at Mingkuang, near Pengfuv rushed the Chinese positions. Fugi-, tives blew up' the bridges over the river, and Japanese artillery, attempting to cross on the ice, crashed into the water. Engineers, waistdeep in the freezing stream, are making temporary bridges. A message from Tsingiao says that the Japanese report a wholesale Chinese retreat from Haichow, the original terminus of the Lunghai railway. Fugitives blocked Port Lienynn, the marine gateway of Haichow, by sinking two 1500-ton steamers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 9
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