Japanese Claim Po Much Improved Tokyo, Dec. 17.
Remnants of Chinese regulars and guerillas numbering about 8,000 were dispersed at various points in North China by Japanese forces from December 11 to 14, according to a dispatch from Peiping last night.
The Yoshizawa detachment based at Hiunghsien in Hopei on December 12 "crushed" about 1500 guerillas in a clash about six kilometres south of the town, the message said. The Chinese left 140 dead, the report claimed.
Several thousand guerillas were attacked, and routed by a Japanese detachment west of Weishan Lake near the border of Shantung "ud Kiangsu, north of Hsuchow, Decem-her 12, the dispatch stated—Dome'.
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