Chinese Left Behind in Rapid Drive on Wuhan Now Being Cleaned up; Wushengkwan Recaptured APANESE troops operating out of Hankow were engaged not only in pursuing Chinese tr cops to the west and south but also in carrying on mopping-up op: erations, a Japanese army spokesman declared yesterday.
Chinese troops were put to flight on Wednesday at a point 20 kilometres west of Lotien on the Anhwei-Hunan border, he said. Another engagement took place 30 kilometres east of Tung-cheng in southern Hupeh.
The spokesman claimed that the rapid advance of Japanese columns necessitated clean-up operations against Chinese troops cut off. Similar operations, he said, were going on in South China on the south bank of the East River, Chungking, Nov. 24.
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