Peiping, Nov. 25.
'A Japanese detachment routed 3,500 Chinese troops at Chengkiakow ithe Hopei-Shantung border. "30 kilometers south-west of Teh-hsien in.
Shantung. and captured the town, cording to a field dispatch received here today.
The Chinese abandoned 180 dead and 62 horses, 87 rifles, three motor ears and 1,500 hand grenades.
Another Japanese detachment enlcireled about 1,000 Chinese troops at /Niuchiaotien, south-west of Teh-hsien, and inflicted "annihilating losses" on them, the message claimed.
In this engagement the Chinese lost 1800 dead, including a chief of stam and a commander of a battalion.
Japanese garrisoned at Tsiaotso, $0 kilometres west of Sinsiang in north-fern Honan, routed about 1,200 Chin-fosse troops' south-east of the town. "Two hundred Chinese were slain, the message said—Domel,
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