Yancheng, June 10.
Japanese forees today had wound up two whirlwind operations against Chinese infiltrations in western and southern Shanst with the Chinese bases of operation, in both sectors, in Japanese hands.
Pinglu in southern Shansi_ was captured on Thursday. three days after a Japanese attack upon a Chi-hose force estimated at $0,000 men had been Iaunched. Of the 30,000 Chinese. only 13,600 were estimated by Japanese officers to have fought the Japanese troops. the others having fallen back before coming into contact with the Japanese.
Chinese dead found abandoned in the path of the Japanese advance up to the fall of Pinglu numbered 2,343, ireluding one regimental commander.
The Japanese forces. in this sector, took 484 prisoners, three trench mortars, 16 heavy machine guns, 2 light machine guns, 579 rifles," 46 trench mortar bombs, 30,000 rounds (heavy machine gun ammunition, 34,500 rounds of rifle ammunition in addition to a large quantity of other weapons.
In western Shansi, the Japanese continued' localized—'mopping-up operations in the Liulinehen area to Thursday. when most of the Chic nese had been driven" north Uchiakiwan pass.
Losses inflicted upon the Chinese vp to Thursday, reports from Taiyuan, said, were given by Japanese officers as 2420 dead. found abandoned: pine "trench mortars, machine-guns, 37 light 149 automatic rifles, 439 rifles, in addition to 13,000 rounds of heavy machine-gun ammunition, 27,590 founds of Bren gun ammunition, 31,000 rounds of automatic rifle am: Ruuntion. 31,920 rounds of rifle ammunition in addition to other' rms and ammunition The western Shansi operations were! launched on June 3—Domel Chinese Active in
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