CHINESE TROOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 111, 6 November 1937, Page 9

CHINESE TROOPS

MAY BE TOO LATETO STEM

ENEMY ADVANCE

CHANGTEH OCCUPIED

(Received November 6, 1 p.m.) ; TOKIO, November 5. .

The Japanese forces swopping down on Taiyuanfu entered Tsinglungchen,. 10 miles north of the capital. . An-: other force has occupied Yutze, an important railway junction 17 miles south of Taiyuanfu, cutting off the' Chinese retreat to the south.'

The Japanese have entered , Honan Province and occupied Changteh, one of the largest of the walled cities. The Chinese left more than 500 dead on the field. : ; ' ; ;

Heavy Chinese reinforcements have been rushed to Shansi, but it is feared; ,they are too late to stem the Japanese advance. "

Japanese warships attacked Yuhwan Island, in; South China, north-east of; Wenchow, driving out the Chinese de-; fenders. '. ■ "'•■ '• ■..'.. ''■'■:'■'■;

The Japanese navy is pressing its demand for a formal: declaration of. war, but the army is opposing it, fear-i ing trade restrictions and international; complications.1; ' :."',''"••'.' ' The "Asahi Shim'bun" says that ' a War Cabinet will prpbably be formed on November 10, lessening what authority Parliament still1 retains. : ■