High Chinese officers, including an acting division commander, a divisional chief of staff, and a regimental commander, were among the 1,500 Chinese troops slain from June 3 to 5 in operations carried out in the vicinity of Liulinchen, field dispatches from west Shansi reaching here today said. The Japanese troops also took 280 prisoners, according to the reports.
Five mountain guns, nine trench mortars, 16 machine guns, 124 automatic rifles, 33 Bren guns, and 379 rifles were included among the bootw taken by the Japanese forces.
Meantime, a "Yungcheng report stated that rapid progress was being made by the Japanese forces in south Shansi which started operations on Tuesday against 30000 Chinese troops.
The Chinese, hemmed in by four land detachments, and subjected to constant aerial bombardments, were falling back towards the Yellow River, where they would be threatened with annihilation unless they managed to cross the swollen waterway at night—Domei, vi
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