The Archive · 1940

Chinese Lose 6,500 Men

Swatow, Mar. 13.

suffered by Chinese forces ing the first week of the new Japanese offensive launched en March Tim the Chaochow area in the eastern corner of Kuangtung were estimated bby the headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Force in South China today at 6.500, of which 4.729 dead wore left behind on battlefields.

Chinese taken prisoner by" the Jupanese numbered 327 troops, it was announced. Nineteen Japanese soldifers were killed andi 66 others injured, the announcement said—Domei.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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