Appearing north of Kwangchow on Friday, this Japanese column put to flight 500 Chinese who left 45 dead in addition to two machine-guns, 20 rifles and 24 horses. Fifty Chinese were also taken prisoner.
Throughout its progress, the Japanese column did not suffer one single fatal casualty, the dispatches stated.
Meantime, however, furious fighting continued to rage for the eighth successively day near the south-eastern Honan border, where Chinese troops, estimated to total ten divisions, were putting up a desperate fight as a Japanese cordon gradually closed in upon the fortified hill of Fukinshan Japanese artillery by Friday night succeeded in pounding into silence a dozen Chinese machine-gun nests in preparation for an assault that resulted in the seizure of a hgo in north-west edge of the height.
Chinese dead abandoned in this system of trenches numbered 330, according to field dispatches reaching Japanese base positions.
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