Japanese Begin Mopping-up Campaign Seeking to trap remnants of Chinese troops in a pocket created south-west of Lake Tai, Japanese troops are advancing from three ons in an extensive mopping-Japanese military caled yesterday, Meanwhile, naval river craft were clean-of the Japanese lending, an Army spokesman announced, "were taken by surprise." They offered no resistance to the Nipponese troops and began retreating to the north and to the cast, he said.
The landing of Army troops, a naval spokesman said, was effected with the assistance of Japanese war vessels and naval aircraft, The latter continued to extend co-opera tion to the advancing troops by bombing and shelling the retreating Chinese,
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