Casualties in the Wuhan drive were announced in a communique issued by the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo yesterday.
In the fighting in Honan province and adjacent regions from August 21 to the middle of October 40,350 Chinese soldiers were killed and 1,570 were captured, the statement said.
The Chinese lost 102,800 slain in the engagements south of the Yangtze River from the time of the Japanese lending at Kiukiang at the end of July until the drive on Hankow started, the communique said. Prisoners taken in this area numbered 3,700.
In the Honan fighting 1,647 Japanese soldiers were killed from the end of August to the end of October, the statement revealed. In the sectors south of the Yangize 4,506 Japanese were killed from the end of July to the latter part of October, the communique stated.
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