Outfanked by Japanese columns, Chinese troops operating east Talerhehwang are in "a precarious position," a Japanese military spokes man claimed yesterday morning.
"In relation to the scope of the operations now under way, the eapture of Taierhehwang is of small Importance," the spokesman asserted, There are other matters more important that have to be reported in oficial dispatches received here.
Continuing extensive mopping-up operations cast of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway in the Mingkwang tarea, Japanese troops occupied the towns of 'Tsiaochengwang, Kiusien and Shihyang, late lust' week, 9 Japanese military spokesman "an Eighty junks were also" captured on Lake Tsiaocheny, he said, On March 31, the spokesman declared, 200 Chinese were put to Aight at a point 12 kilometres north~ ast of Mingkwang, while 70 other Chinese troops were defeated near Kiusien on April 1, engagement at, Taishanting, 150 Chinese wore routed. They fled, Teaving 100 bodies on the field, the spokesman asserted,
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