Hankow, Jan. 21.
Nine executions and thirty dismissals for failure to carry out orders in the present campaign against Japan are announced in an official statement issued here to-day by the Military Headquarters.
The nine who paid the supreme penalty were an army corps commander, a brigadier, a judge of a court martial, two regimental commanders, three battalion commanders and a chief telegraph operator, while those dismissed consisted of an army corps commander, thirteen division commanders, four brigade commanders, ten regimental commanders, one battalion commander, and a divisional chief-of-staff., In addition, General Hsiang Han-ping, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Kwangtung forces, was given one big demerit. The statement also cited for bravery several Chinese officers who were killed in action, including an army corps commander, a deputy army corps commander and two division commanders,—Reuter.
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