Nanking, June 11.
During mopping-up operations against guerillas and bandit-troops in ihe Nanking area in May Japanese garrison forces killed 276 Chinese ard Mcck.196 prisoners, according, to an announcement by Japanese military authorities. Japanese casualties were 30 killed.
Booty seized by the Japanese included 416 rifles, three heavy machine guns, 10 ' light machine guns, two trench mortars, 25 pistols and large amounts of other arms and ammunition.
A small Japanese unit routed a large number of Chinese armed with Czech machine guns in a clash lasting nine hours near Paoshihchen. 16 kilometres east of Kuyung, which 1s southeast of Nanking. The Chinese lost 50 killed, while Japanese casualties were two wounded. Large respondence which however had not yet been examined at a late hour last night, as detectives were busy questioning the arrested persons, some of whom were going to be released later having merely been on the premises at the time of the raid without actually having any connection in the sale or use of the drug.
Hundreds of occupants of the lane in which the raid was carried out stood near the premises and loudly applauded the detectives as they came out of the building, carrying the seized objects on tr The opium was found at various places in the building and was well-concealed, most of it having been stored in old cigarette tins in the kitchen, in double-bottom chairs and in various other containers which the proprietors of the plate thought most likely to escape the eyes of the sleuths, Working energetically however, the house was searched from top to bottom in less than one hour and, whilst the actual results achieved in the first raid, were not very encouraging, detectives are of the opinion that they will soon have unearthed one of the largest opium-distributing gangs at present operating in Shanghai.
Those of the suspects whom the detectives believe to be concerned in the trafic will face the First Special District Court this morning.
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