Tokyo, Feb. 27.
Japanese mopping-up operations in the Third war zone have been successfully concluded, according to a field dispatch reaching here today.
The Third War zone comprises Chekiang, Kiangsu, Kiangsi and Fukien provinces. The mopping-up campaign was started on February Dispatches reaching here, quoting the commander of Japanese forces, stated that more than 200,000 Chinese troops under Gen. Ku Chu-tung had been routed. The Japanese forces destroyed more than 20 Chinese military bases, including Langki, Liyang and Nantuchen, according to the messages, Japanese forces had no intention of extending the areas occupied by Japanese forces, but Japanese troops were always prepared to launch an expedition like the one just completed in case Chinese troops resumed anti-Japanese activities, the messages si—Domet.
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