Killed; Japanese 6,000
Tokyo, Nov. 6.
Chinese casualties in Central China fighting from August to November 4 were estimated to total 350,000, including 119,000 dead, in a communique issued last evening by the War Office. Prisoners numbered 3200. The statement disclosed that 6,153 Japanese soldiers were killed during this period.
Booty taken by the Japanese included 90 motor lorries, 303 guns, 233 heavy machine guns, 1,044 light machine guns, 8,028 shells, 8,715 hand grenades, 260 mines, a large number of rifles and "enormous quantities" of arxmunition, in addition to two gunpowder magazines "fully packed." It was estimated unofficially that the Japanese forces in Central China had defeated about 130 divisions numbering 800,000 men.—Domei.
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