Peiping, Mar. 1.
'ORALLY demoralized, 100,000 Chinese troops have been trapped in the snow-covered mountains of Shansi, Japanese military authorities here claimed to-day.
The only units to escape from the rapidly tightening ring of Japanese troops were those stationed between Lishin and the Yellow River, where it forms the boundary between Shansi and Shensi, the officers said.
Defeated in a: sanguinary engagement in Lishih on February 24, these soldiers succeeded in crossing the Yellow River in a military ferry, plying between Chungtu, Shansi, and Wupao, Shensi.
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