Chinese troops abandoned 11,100 dead in their retreat along the north-[ern Tapieh mountain range between August 28, when Huan and its vicinity fell into Japanese hands, and September 17, when Kwangchow and Shang-cheng were captured by the Japanese, a communique issued by the Japanese Expeditionary Force in Central China claimed yesterday. The Japanese took 354 prisoners, the announcement. added.
Booty seized by the Japanese included 13 trench mortars, 15 machineguns and 101 light machine-guns.
Japanese casualties during the period included about 500 killed, the communique stated. A The huge Japanese pincer movement against Hankow has been tightened to such an extent that a race now is going on between forces operating north and south of the Yangtze to see which will be the first to cut the Peiping-Hankow or Canton-Hankow Railways, according to feld dispatches reaching Shanghai last night.
A Japanese column driving on Maching from Shangcheng reduced Sintien in the Tapieh Mountains half way between Shangcheng and Macheng, a Domei dispatch claimed.
In the area south of the Yan
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