Kaifeng, June 9 An attempt by 10000 Chinese soldiers to recapture Kaifeng was pulsed yesterday in a battle lasting several hours during which 2,000 inese were killed, Japanese mil y commanders here claimed today.
The counter-offensive was launched y troops of the 34th, 14lst, and 242nd Divisions, The Chinese survivors of the attack were said to have retreated westward, leaving behind 2,000 rifles, 50,000 machinegun bullets, 400 hand-grenades and 40 trench-mortars, The Japanese Iwakura detachment occupied Liuyuankow and neighbouring districts on the south bank of the Yellow River, eight kilometres north of Kaifeng, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, the Japanese commanders stated, Occupation of the town will faci, Kate operations of Japanese columns ae it is on a highway running north to Peking. From their positions in the Japanese can maintain contact with other columns on the northern bank of the river in north Honan.
Just before the fall of Kaifeng the Chinese forces which had been defending the city destroyed the of the Yellow River for a dis-of almost eight kilometres, Japanese military authorities here Stated toda They adopted these desperate measures in an attempt to halt the rapid advances of Japanese columns from three directions, the Japanese authorities said—Domei
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