During a 13-day mopping-up drive central. and southern opel fron February 8 to 20. Japanese detachments Killed 4311 Chinese troops and captured 490, the headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Force 9 North China claimed" in a communique istled. here yesterda; "Booty taken by the Japanese dur-Jing this period included two trench mortars, 14 machine guns, 1,210 rifles, 48 pistols, 14 bayonets, 974 big swords, 136" spears, 25 trench-mortar shells, 9,672 hand grenades, 44,270 rounds of rifle ammunition, one "radio set, 85 horses and 1,200 Uniform Tapanese casualties were announced in the communique ax $8 dead and 152, wounded.
Gen, Lu Chung-lin and Gen, Shih
nese troops in central and southern Yueshin, who were commanding Chi Hopel, have left the area, Gen, Lu was believed to be in Shansi and Gen. Shih was said to be in the Nan-kung area,
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