Tokyo, May 31.
Chinese casualties in the Hsuchowfu sector up to May 24 are estimated at about 240,000, "including 103,000 corpses left on the battlefield," in a communique issued today by Imperial Headquarters, 'The huge amount of material captured, the statement adds, includ~ ed 96 heavy guns, 270 heavy' and 832 ight machine guns, 17400 rifles, 86 locomotives, 2,031 railway coaches and freight' wagons, eight armoured trains, 14 tanks and armoured cars, over 9,000,000 cartridges and 44,500 shells.
The number of prisoners is not mentloned—Reuter,
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