Taiyuan. Sune High Chinese officers. including an acting division commander, a divi sional chief of staff, and a regimen 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 Shans! reaching here today said. The Japanese troops also took 200" 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 boots taken by the Japanese forces.
Meantime, "a Yungeheng report stated that rapid progress. was being made by the Japanese forces in south Shansi which started operations 9 Tuesday against 90,000 Chineco 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 threaten ed with annihilation unless—they managed to cross the swollen water= way at night—Domel,
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