Nearly Ten Thousand Dead Admitted Japanese army casualties in the troops on August 23, to November 15, were ofielally announced on Nov. 18' as 39,620 by a spokesman for the Japanese military.
Including in this number, the spokesman said, were 9,760 Killed in action or dead from illness, and 20,850 wounded or il.
These Ngures, the spokesman asserted, did not include the losses of the troops operating from the Hang chow and Yangize areas.
Naval losses, including both killed and wounded, were placed by a naval spokesman ai 1.200, these including casualties on board war vessels as well as on land.
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