Bands to Be Cleaned Up In Soochow Area Operations have been Inunched by the Japanese Army and Navy against the pirates of Lake Tal, a spokesman for the Army announced yesterday morning, Reinforced by irregulars and dispossessed farmers, the notorious pirates have recently resumed their depredations, the officer revealed, Meanwhile. other Army units have fengayed over the week-and in ¢x-tensive operations against stragglers Fouming the aren south of Soochow the banks of Lake Tal.
The bands, whose total strength was estimated by the spokesman. 4.000 men, have been "rounded up."
"Mopping up" operations were also in progress in the past few days the area between Chinkiang. Nanking, and Kuyung, where about 200 Chinese stragglers have been "dispersed."
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