Order has been restored by the completion of "Japanese. operations, the communique claimed,—Administrative and' police organs, have beer re-established while highways and communication ines were being Te-constructed, the statement said Sapanese sletachments threw an encircling cordon around the Pelping-Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow Railway areas in central and southern Hopel ud started operations on February 8 {o disperse about 50,000, troops. cluding the Communist Eighth Hour 'Army commanded by' Gen. Shih Within a fow days at! the hsien and Important highways north. of @ line West to east through Tsing strategic town near the Shantung "border in -soushewestern Hopel, were under Japanese control. All the important positions north of fan. castawest line extending. through Tuinhslen, east of Shihchiachwang, were taken and the zone of occupation' gradually enlarged, the' communique sated, "The Chinese troops wore scattered with' Navy losses, the statement
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