Tokyo, Dec. 29.
forces have left 1,218,452 dead on battlefields during the period from July, 1937, to November, this year, a comby the Army Section of the Imperial General Head-per ana 282,117 from May, 1939 to November, 1939, from Of this number 823,296 bodies of Chinese troops were found July, to November, 1938; 113,039 from December, 1938 to
announcement said.
""The figures only refer to the bodies found by the Japanese forces and if other losses such as wounded, deserters, and those who surrendered are added to them, the total losses suffered by the Chinese troops would be as many as 3,000,000, "the communique said.
Japanese dead were nearly 15 times smaller than Chinese losses during the nine-month ending in November, the announcement said. During that time Chinese forces left 395,166 dead on battlefields. number of Japanese killed during the same period was 27,000.
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