Canton, Nov. 26.
Japanese columns mopping up guerillas south of the East River were gradually tightening their lines in a wide encircling operation which has brought them close to the borders of British territory, according to field dispatches received here last night, About 1,500 Chinese troops suffered heavy losses when a Japanese detachment driving on Loutsun after capturing Chasan shelled their positions at Tiensin, the dispatches said. The Chinese left 300 dead when they retreated from the Tiensin area, the messages claimed, North of the East River a Japanese mobile detachment engaged 609 Chinese troops in the vicinity of Ching-ching, 32 kilometres southeast of Tsunafa, and 500 more near Hantsun, 12 kilometres south-east of Teungfa, and "almost annihilated" them in encircling operations. the field repor stated.—Domei.
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