Tokyo, Aug. 7.
Japanese naval planes blew up 60 Chinese trucks and. twelve warehouses near Chennankwan, close 10 the French Indo-China border, when they attacked a convoy of several hundred trucks, according to. 3 Japanese communiqué.—Reuter.
"Summer Offensive" Defeated Tokyo, Aug. 12. so-called "summer offensive" attempted by the Chinese forces in Shansi and other districts in Central China has been shattered by the JSepanese, according to a field dispatch Feaching' here today from Hankow.
During July Japanese forces around Hankow north and south of the Yangtze River clashed 200 times with Chinese troops aggregating 5&)00, killing 2444 and taking 233 prisoners, according to the message.
Four Japanese detachments success. fully mopped up Chinese troops, on {the south bank of the Yangtze during the month, the dispatch said. spite of the Chinese claim that Nanchang had been recaptured, about. 1,000 Chinese troops attempted to wrest it from the hands of the Japan-jose in July, the dispatch stated.
In the mopping up on the south bbenke of the river the Japanese dispersed 11,000 Chinese troops. The Chinese left 1,617 dead, while 66 were taken prisoner. Booty soizea by the Japanese comprised 264 rifles, 56,000 rounds of ammunition, five heavy machine guns and 16 light machine guns of Czechoslovakian manufacture.
On the north bank of the river [Jepanese troops had 228 engagements with Chinese forces totalling 43,000
Jéuring July.
'Most of the battles were fought in the areas south of 'Tsungcheng and Yanglowssu in south-eastern Hupeh, around Fengsin, Tsingan and Nanchang in north-western Kiangsi south of the "Yangize, north-east of the Peiping-Hankow' Railway, north of Sinyang in Southern Honan, and at other points in adjacent areas.
The Chinese forees were scattered. slong a front extending more than 1.200 kilometres and totalled less than one-third of the number of troops, ised in the April offensive, according te the message—Domel.
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