Chinese stragglers, mopped up in the Anking, Wuhu, Nanking, Soochow and Hangchow areas in a week of fighting started on<November 8, suffered losses of about 2,000 slain, according to the "Tairiku Shimpo." The mopping-up operations were carried out by Japanese garrison forces in the respective districts.
Seeking to impede the movement for establishment of a new central regime and to disturb peace and order behind the Japanese lines, the Chungking regime at the beginning of November ordered the newly organized 62nd Division, the 30th Division and the new Fourth Army to filter into various areas in Central China, the paper said.
In the vicinity of Anking in southwestern Amhwei guerilla artillery units attempted to disrupt traffic on the Yangtze.
Japanese National Power Próved Tokyo, Nov. 24.
"Should it be found necessary for the extermination of the anti-Japanese political regime in China, the Japanese army will not spare one inch of that country."
This statement was made here this afternoon by the director of the Press Bureau of the Army. Section of the Imperial Generel Headquarters in commenting upon the Japanese occupation of Nanning, key city in southern Kwangsi, twelve days after the Japamese forces landed on the shores of the Gulf of Tongking.
Japanis national power, he said, was not so scanty as to become exhausted by two or three years of fighting—Domei.
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