The bodies of 3,000 Chinese who fell in action during the operations of October 26, have been picked up by the advancing Japanese forces between Tazang and Chenju, a spokesman for the Japanese army revealed yesterday afternoon, The war booty picked up in this area, according to the spokesman, included 46 light machine guns, 14 heavy machine guns, 370 rifles, 103,- 000 rifle cartridges, 20,000 howitzer shells, 1,000 signal shells and 6,000 blankets, Regarding activities on the front, the spokesman asserted that north of Nanziang, to Liuho, the Japanese are progressing slowly to the west. He @dded however, that there were no marked changes in the lines.
The. spokesman then asserted that the Japanese were now in complete control of the area on the northern bank of Soochow Creek to Fengchia, face to face with Nanziang, with the exception of the Joint, Savings Society godown in Chapei.
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