Large Area Said Cleared Of Communist Troops Taiyuan, Jan. 28.
"Yunglochen in south-western Shansi, a pivotal point in the Chun-hsin Mountain defence sector, fell to the Japanese on Thursday, a delayed field dispatch said today. The town was taken by the Mano detachment, which routed 1,500 Chinese on the previous day.
Strategic Communist centres in eastern Shansi were occupied after Japanese detachments started operations around Hoshun, south of the Shansi Railway, which was captured on January 24.
Hanwanchen, 20 kilometres south Hoshun, and Tafatow, 18 kilometres south-west of Hoshun, were captured yesterday, the message claimed. Pingchingshen, south-east of Hoshun, and Chipingshen were occupied on Thursday and Friday. Chinese entrenched north of Hoshun were mopped up.
The large red zone in eastern Shansi formerly controlled by Gen. Liu Pei-cheng. and Gen. Chu Teh has been cleared of Chinese troops, the dispatch, elaimed—Domei.
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