Chinese claims of Major victories in Shangtung were again denied by a spokesman for the Japanese Army here yesterday. Both Tsining and Lincheng, whose recapture was claimed by the Chinese, were still in Japanese hands, he asserted.
"The Chinese idea of a victory," he said, "is different from ours. When they do not retreat, they regard it a victory."
The spokesman then made a lengthy review of military operations in Central and North China,—The Chinese, he pointed out, are increasingly resorting to guerilla warfare on all fronts.
On March 16, he said, a Chinese guerilla unit of about 2000 men attacked a detachment of the Japanese Army's Service Corps between Lu-cheng and Lincheng, in south-eastern Shansi.
In the six-hours engagement, he said, the Japanese force lost 185 men killed and wounded. The attackers, he asserted, lost 300 men dead,
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