Renewing heavy blows against Chinese guerillas operating around Shanghai with bases in the Set and French Concession, authorities hav nese army mander of guerillas Island at the mouth Japanese newspapers r day.
Major-Gen Chen Hong-i w on March 16, nine days a sensational capture of Hsiung Chien-tung.
20,000 guerillas operate Chao-Rao and on the morning of April 26 were about to return to Tsungmi Island on a foreign ship after the purchase of arm:
According to the "Tairiku Shimp Chen Chao-tso, 43, acted under orders from the National Military Council at Chungking and was in command of about 500 guerillas equipped with five light machine guns and 500 rifles.
He was said to have suffered defeats at the hands of the Japanese and to have forced a number o(bandits in the neighbourhood to join his men. The paper said he had headquarters in the Settlement and Concession and operating in collaboration with ənti-Japanese terrorists.
Having received $10,000 from the Chungking Government and purchased arms and ammunition in Shanghai, Chen Chao-tso and his henchmen were leaving here for the purpose of renewing operations on Tsungming Island when they were nabbed by the net spread by the Japanese gendarmerie.
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