JorANEse garrison troops on the lower Yangtze delta marked Shanghai, Aug. 21,
August 13, the first anniversary of the outbreak of the Sino-
[Japanese hostilities in Shanghi Istrongholds and concentration: announced yesterday evening. with a series of attacks on guerilla, a Japanese military spokesman, All operations, he claimed, were At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, [putting them to flight, eunists and guerillas along the The Japanese garrison at Chowpu-[Tsinpu and Pinghan Railways in Hopei chen, 20 Kilometres south-east province and dispersed them with Shanghai, took the offensive against heavy losses, according to field re. about 400 Chinese Irregulars on ports reaching here today.
August 14, pursuing the retreating.
The Chinese toft about 1,000 deag, Chinese toa point about four kllome-}260 rifles, 6,000 rounds of ammunition tres south of the town before forcing fand 100 horses, the reports said. them to scatter. The guerillas Some of the guerillas, operating abandoned about 60 dead and a large with the Eighth Route Army, Increased number of arms. their activities "after the ' outbreak 'On the northern bank of the of hostilities on the Sovlet-Manchou-'Yangtze, a Japanese column operating out' of Nantungchow attacked a Chinese guerilla concentration in the la. War area east of the town on August 13, nm, Aug, 19 The irregulars retreated, abandoning One of the largest mopping-up 250 dead, light and heavy machine campaigns in the present Sino. guns, radio signalling equipment and Japanese hostilities got under way other arms, Fifteen prisoners were here today as operations were claimed by the spokesman to have Inunched by Japanese forces agains, been taken.
42,000 Chinese guerillas in Shan-Further north, the Japanese garrlson at Jukao, inflicted "heavy losses" upon @ Chinese group of about 700 men. band at @ point 16 kilometres south-'Attacking an irregular concentra. west of here as the campaign was tion at 'Tsingkiang, opposite Kiang-launched. About 10,000 guerillas yin, on the Yangtze, another Japan-fare believed to be roaming the ese' column occupied the walled city Shantung plains near here, with after putting about 400 Chinese to another 10,000 in the imme Aight, the spokesman asserted.
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