BITTER FIGHTING.
IN SNOW AND SLEET. DRIVE TO SUCHOW. LONDON, Jan. 24. The Daily Telegraph’s Peking correspondent says the Lunghai railway is the scene of bitter fighting, amid sleet, snow and blizzards. Japanese columns, driving . toward 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 Mingknang, near Pengfu, rushed the Chinese positions. Fugitives blew up the bridges over the river, and Japanese artillery, attempting to cross on the ice, crached into the water. Engineers, wai6t-deep in the freezing stream, are ma.king temporary bridges. A message from Tsingtao savs that the Japanese report a wholesale Chinese retreat from Haichow,_ the original terminus of the Lunghai railway. Fugitives blocked Port. Lienyuy, the marine gateway of Faichow, by sinking two 1500-ton steamers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 7
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