Hsinghsiang, Nov. 20.
Apart from minor clashes on the left flank of the Chinese line, no heavy fighting was reported on the Pinghan front during the past few days.
Heavy snowfall which started here Jast Friday night for the first time this winter has not impaired the morale of Chinese troops on the north Honan front.
A flying column of Chinese forces launched a nigh! tack on Yihsien on Nov. 14. A small Japanese unit in the city is still being surrounded by 1he Chinese forces.
Japanese troop: numbering 2,000, are reported ver y active near Ping-yao about 100 kin, south-west of Taiyuan, Strict vigilance is being maintained by Chinese defenders at Chiehhsiu and Yitang, south of Pingyao—Central News.
Tokyo, Nov. 20. The total Chinese casualties since the outbreak of the "China incident" exceeds 554000, of which 145,470 bodies were left on the battlefields, according to a communique issued to-day by the Ministry of War. Japan, it adds, lost 16,048 officers and men during the same period, The communique states that Chinese casualties in
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