Hankow, Feb. 27.
Launching an attack on Chinese lines facing the Japanese positions at Sinyang in southern Honan on the Peiping-Hankow Railway line, the Aoyama Detachment put to rout 300 troops on February 24 in the vicinity of Lankanpu, 40 kilometres east of Sinyang, according to a field dispatch received here yesterday.
Closely pursuing the retreating Chinese, the Japanese detachment yesterday morning smashed their positions at Loshan at the foot of the Tapieh Mountains, inflicting heavy losses on 500 troops.
In this clash the Chinese lost 252 slain, while eleven prisoners were taken by the Japanese. Booty seized by the Japanese included 133 rifles.—Domei.
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