Peiping, Nov. 24.
About 3,000 guerillas and bandits have been dispersed with heavy losses in mopping-up drives by Japanese columns in' Hopel and Shansi during the past three days, according to feld dispatches reach~ ing here today.
A force of 400 guerillas were dispersed near Hanchen, 12 kilometres West of Tangshan on the Peiping-Shanhaikwan Railway in north= eastern Hopei, while 200 more were routed in a clash at Paikwan, 30 kilometres north-west of Tangshan, the messages claimed.
The Japanese seized 405 rifles, 23 bayonets and 8500 rounds of rifle ammunition in the two engagements, In a battle west of Tangshan on 1.400 guerillas were put to route after many of them had been killed. About_150 Chinese attached to the First Cavalry Division were defeated in a brief clash eight Kilometres south of Ningwu in northern
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