The Archive · 1938

Mopping-up North Of Lunghai Japanese Say Operations

Successful Peiping, July 5.

Satisfactory results have beer achieved by Japanese troops engaged in mopping up Chinese remnants it. the triangular area north of the Lunghai Railway f the Yellow River and west of the Grand Canal, it was announced here today Chinese remnants near Laomachi east of Kweiteh, were dispersed by Japanese detachment on June 29, while on the next day Japanese units crushed guerillas in the vicinity of Tangshan, east of Kweiteh along the Lunghai line.

The Chinese lost 200 killed and abandoned 100 rifles, 20 pistols, 2,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, machine-cun ammunition, big swords, and spears.

The same detachment on July 2 staged a surprise raid on a Chinese cneentration at Maliaochi, anninilatug the force there, and captured Yucheng, on the Honan-Shantung

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