More than 2,000 Chinese troops. armed with trench mortars, were routed by Japanese forces at Pinghsiang, 19 kilometres south of Ts hsien, east of here on Thursday after a fierce engagement in which the Chinese abandoned 200 dead. field reports reaching here today said On the same day. 600 Chinese troops of the Communist Eighth Route Army, were driven off in an encounter at Tuiluchwang, 12 kilometres north-cest of Hulu, in southern Shansi, the dispatched added.—Dome:
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