Shanghai, May 26.
Chinese casualties in the battle of jrsuchow were yesterday placed by a spokesman of the Japanese army. }200.000 officers and men wounded and 'The estimates, he added, were as yee Incomplete and would' probably iso.
Chinese dead abandoned on the fields of battle were put by the spokesman at 60,000.
War booty captured by the Japanese Jon the Hsuchow front, the officer said, included four armoured trains, fave heavy guns mounted on railway Jearriages. 40 locomotives, 2.000 carrie Jages, and a vast quantity of portable farms, ammunition and equipment, Two Divistons Routed In another battle, west of Lanfeng, the Japanese troops attacked the 36th Jand the 88rd Divisions, comprising in fall 10,000 men, and put them' to tight, the spokesman claimed.
The Chinese force was said have lost 700 men deed. War booty time to check the number of towns and villages 0. burning.
Japanese officer Taconically explained to us pointing with a finger Yo. the fires: "Japanese. bombing'
"The machine few over a column of Chinese troops marching along the highway In formation, At the frst sound of the engine, the Chinese halted as one man and stood motion-ess on the road, In an effort to escape attention,
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