According to reports from Peiping, mopping-up operations in North China are making rapid progress. Japanese forces were said to have crushed 600 Chinese guerillas and Landits near Paitangtsun, ten kilometres south-east of Wangtu, killing more than 30 of them.
About 600 guerillas which attacked the Japanese garrison at Shaliuhochen, 24 kilometres west of Fengjun in north-eastern Hopei, were driven off after losing 20 slain, according to the Peiping reports Three Japanese units defeated about 1,000 Chinese guerillas in the area near Yangchwang, eight kilometres east of Kuankiao on the Tientsin-Pukow Railroad, dispatches claimed. The Chinese were said to have left 73 dead.
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