Success in Battle Fought In North Honan Peiping, July 1.
Major successes were claimed today to have been scored by the "Provisional Government's First Route Army against the Communist Eighth Róüte Army in engagements lasting ior two days near Pengcheng in northern Honan.
The First Route Army, commander by Gen. Li Fu-ho, consists of approximately 10,000 men who surrendered to the Japanese forces in March, Pengcheng is at a point 44 kilometres north-west of Changteh on the Peiping-Hankow Railway.—Domei.
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