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Show Two Chinese Cities Fall to Japanese SHANGHAI. Nov. (UP) A part of the city of Sungkiang. southern terminal of the Chinese defense line, ha been occupied by Japanese troops, a Japanese communique said today. Advancing up the Pootung peninsula penin-sula in a rear guard attempt to isolate th Chinese forces from Shanghai, the Japanese reported they had Inflicted heavy casualties. A Chinese apokesman admitted that civilians had been evacuated from Sungkiang. The Japanese advance ad-vance was preceded by heavy airplane air-plane bambafdmeaU mi the eitial of Changchow, Huchow, Hangchow. K ashing and Soochow. The Chines reported that their troop were driving south and east In an attempt to catch the Japanese in a pincer movement and isolate 25,000 men from their seacoast base. Unconfirmed reports said that a battle waa In progress on the Sungkiang Sung-kiang front Japanese failed, according to Chines Chi-nes spokesmen. In three efforts to land men on the Whangpoo immediately imme-diately below Shanghai, in an effort to cooperate In a flanking attack on th Pootung section. PEIPING. China, Nov. (UP) The fall of Taiyuan, capital of Shansi province, is imminent, a Japanese spokesman asserted to- day. He aaid that the Japanese Kaya-shima Kaya-shima unit captured the city's east gate at :30 a. m. and that one corner of th city bad been occupied. oc-cupied. NANKING, Nov. I OD More than 300 passengers were killed or injured today, the Chinese ministry of railwaya said, when six Japanese planes destroyed seven coaches of a aouthbound Tsinan-Pukow express ex-press train at the Siahlhpo station, about 130 miles northwest of Nanking. |