Recent "Victories" in About 4,000 Japanese (at Taierhchwang are said to be continuing to offer stiff resistance at Nanhai and Liuchiaho and also in the northeastern outskirts of the city Chinese fon advancing from their right wing, Chinese sources state, reached the. vicinity of Tsaochwang by a flanking movement, and "inflicted 2,000 casualties on the Japanese in an engagement in the north-eastern suburbs of Taierh-
Unofficial Statements hwang." The Japanese, it is said, launched an attack on the Chinese Apparently stung to the quick by the somewhat frequent Chinese claims of victories during the past few days, official Japanese military circles abandoned their attitude of reticence to make a few pertinent remarks on the subject yesterday morning, Chinese headquarters, said the Japanese military spokesman, had claimed a number of victories in southern Shantung; in the absence of a Chinese spokesman in Shanghai, he would deputize for Chinese military circles, the basis of his information being statements "secured from a Chinese who had been made prisoner in Shantung.
In the vicinity of Taierhchwang, Tsinpu railway spur line terminal, he stated, one whole Chinese division had been wiped out; he had the number of the Chinese division but positions yesterday, after which they retreated towards Koolichin
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