The Archive · 1938

Mopping-up In N, China

According to reports from Peiping. mopping-up operations in North China ate making rapid progress. Japanese forces were said to have crushed 600 Chinese guerillas and Eandits near Paitangtsun, ten kilome es south-east of Wangiu, killing more than 30 of them.

About 600 guerillas which attacked the Japanese garrison at Shaliuhachen, 24 kilometres west of Fengjun in north-eastern Hopel, were driven off after losing 20 slain, according to the Peiping reports Three Japanese units defeated. about 1,000 Chinese guerillas in the area near Yangchwang, eight kilometres east of Kuankiao on the Tientsin-Pukow Railroad, dispatches dained. The Chinese were said to uve left 13 dead.

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