Fifteen thousand five hundred Chinese were slain in battles in the Kwangtsi area, where a comparatively small number of Japanese troops uted about 19 Chinese divisions under Gen, Li Ping-hsien, Japanese authorities here estimated today, Kwangtsi was described as the pivotal point of the first Chinese defence line of Hankow, The Japanese took 1,200 prisoners, it was claimed. The following booty was abandoned: field tain guns, 5; trench machine guns, 2; quick firing guns, 4; heavy machine guns, 13; light machine guns, 125; horses, 80, and large quantities of ammunition. Domei.
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