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...Chinese War Office in Hankow today said that divisions of Chinese regular army and scores of guerrilla bands were attacking the Japanese at more than a dozen points along an irregular line of about 1,000 miles from Hang-chow, capital of Chekiang Province, through Anhwei, Shantung, Shansi and Hopei Provinces. He said that 15,000 Japanese soldiers have been killed in the fighting in South Shantung Province since May 1, and that 3,000 have been killed this week...
After a month of butting against stubborn Chinese defenders at a dozen points along China's Yellow River, from the Great Wall pass in northwest Shansi to Chengchow, 300 miles to the southeast in Honan, Japanese forces finally secured a toehold on the Chinese-held south bank of the river at Szeshui, Honan Province, Chinese sources admitted last week. Main Japanese objective since their December capture of Nanking has been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow...
Chinese officials minimized the Japanese rail-link snipping at Szeshui, pointed out that there still remained open a five-day highway connection between Hankow and Sian. They announced that at Tungkwan, where the river crooks like an elbow between Shensi and Shansi Provinces, Chinese troops were still holding the main body of Japanese troops to the opposite bank of the river...
...secondary factor of the Chinese resistance has been the weather. Heavy snowfalls, then freezing weather, mucked down Japanese tanks, motor transports in the loose soil of Shansi Province. Last week the Japanese were still sending brave bands across the river in rubber pontoon boats, frail craft menaced by floating chunks of ice,Chinese sniper bullets, whirling, angry waters...
Japanese forces in China were not only still advancing in the "Hindenburg Line" sector last week, but had so nearly encircled Chinese forces in southwest Shansi numbering about 100,000, that dispatches called them "trapped," said another major butchery impended...