After suffering a series of setbacks last week, Chinese troops on the northern Shansi front are definitely beginning to gain an upper hand with the participation in battle of strong reinforcements, according to a military communique issued this evening.
Several successes were stated by the communique to have been scored by Chinese troops last night on a 150-kilometre front extending irom Huaijen to Laiyuanhsien in northeastern Shansi south of Tatung.
Japanese troops last night reached Hunyuan-hsien, about 40 miles southeast of Tatung, and a line from Tiaochuantsun, Paikwangtsun apa Nantungkow, which towns are in Laiyuanhsien along the Great Wall, Fresh Chinese troops rushed to the line suddenly sprang upon the Japanese in a series of curious offend sives along the line, attacking the Japanese in frontal as well as flanking movements. After several hours of severe engagements, the Japanese forces retreated along the whole front in a disorderly fashion, leaving over 3,000 dead and having 2,000 others captured.
(Continued on page 5)
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.