Sorely-tried by the exactions Chinese guerillas, claiming to be part of the newly-formed Fourth Army; Chinese civilians in Pootung assisted Japanese forces last week in eeking vut the lars o; tne irregulars, a Correspondent of the "Shanghai Nippo' vith the Japanese forces reported yesterda; The anti-guerilla drive was launched at midnight last Tuesday by seven Japanese detachments deployed along an 80-kilometre semi-circular line on the Pootung peninsula south-east of Shanghai across the Whangpoo River.
Two prisoners were taken, while 342 guerillas were slain, according to, the correspondent of the "Shanghai Mainichi," who also followed, ite Japanese troops. Booty taken included 56 rifles, 10,134 rounds of ammunition, 35 bayonets, 22 hand grenades, three stretchers, one revolver, one machine-gun of Czech manufacture, and three Chinese big swords. Japanese losses totalled one killed and eight) wounded. Among the latter wasan officer, the "Mainichi's" correspondent said,
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