GREAT BATTLE IMMINENT
The following cablegram was i» ceived by the Chinese Consul from Hankow this morning:—
On the border of. Shantung and Kiangsu provinces both the Chinese and the Japanese are heavily reinforcing their lines, and a second great battle—the first was fought at Taierchwang—is imminent. There is now severe fighting in i villages ten kil(K metres east of Taierchwang, also id the territory north of Pihsien.
There is evidence of the enemy's intention to recommence attacking from south of the Hwai River. Two thousand enemy troops have crossed this river, and about one thousand are again threatening Yiencheng.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 9
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