The Archive · 1938

Chinese Wiped Out Near Hangchow

Japanese Claim Military Successes

Shanghai, Mar. 5.

Chinese units, comprising about 4,000 men, have been annihilated in the past few days in the hilly region south-east' of Slaofeng, 55 Kims. north-west of Hangchow, a Japanese military spokesman claim-fed_on Thursday "night.

Mopping-up operations, he added, were also carried out in points west of Hangchow,—including Wuhan, Wangssutsun, " Anki, Hoping, and Wangssutsun, he added, 50 Chinese soldiers were killed ' and at Anki 200 men met death. Sino feng was occupied by Japanese troops on February 23.

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