Peiping, Feb. 17.
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more guerilla bases and. inflicted heavy losses on Chinese troops the past few days, according to field dispatches reaching here today.
Tsienchungchen, 24 kilometres south-east of Weihsien, was occupied and 400 driven off.
Siaotaicnen, 200 kilometres northeast of Taminghsien, fell before a Japanese attack the same day ənd Chinese irregulars were being dispersed in the surrounding arees, according to the messages.
Anhsin-hsien, east of Paoting-fu on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, was ront- occupied previously. A Japanese detachment operating east of Paotingfu routed 1,000 guerillas in five combats south-east of Jungcheng before the town was taken.—Domei.
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