Big Chinese Concentration Observed at Choukiakow As Troops Withdraw; Kaifeng Entered CETING little resistance, Japanese troops yesterday morning reached a point 20 kims. east of Chengchow, the vitally important junction of the Lunghai and Peiping-Hankow Railways At that time, military reports received here said, an engagement was in progress for the possession of a sand-swept village, evacuated by its terrorificd inhabitants.
Meanwhile, cutting off the southward retreat of the Chinese troops entrenched in Chengchow, another Japanese column was reported to have occupied a village 16 kims. east of the Peiping-
Hankow Railway and south of the railway junction.
Still ancther column, which on June 5 drove westward directly south of Kaifeng, was reported yesterday to have reached a point 20 kims. east of the railway linking Chengchow with Hankow.
With Kaifeng almost completely cleared of corpses, Chinese casualties ju the battle for the possession of the city were put by the reports at more than 3,000 officers and men killed.
Vast war booty. was also said to ye been captured, Chinese troops retreating on foot from Kaifeng along the Lunghat Reilway were reported to have been overtaken by the pursuing Japanese mobile units and slain
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