Peiping, Nov, 25.
A Japanese detachment routed 3,500 Chinese troops at Chengkiakow on the Hopei-Shantung border, 30 kilometers south-west of Teh-hsien in Shantung, and captured the town, according to a feld dispatch received here today.
The Chinese abandoned 150 dead and 62 horses, 57 rifles, three motor cars and 1,500 hand grenades.
Another Japanese detachment encircled 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 800 dead, including a chief of. staff and a commander of a battalion.
Japanese. garrisoned at Tsiaotso, 50 kilometres west of Sinsiang in northern Honan, routed about, 1,200 Chinese troops south-east of the town. Two hundred Chinese were slain, the message said—Domei
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