Peiping, Apr. 26.
Substantiating field reports that General Chiang Kai-shek's Central China Army, under the command of General Wei Li-huang, has been grushed and that the army of 180,000 is in full flight after leaving 20.000 dead on the field of battle, the heaaquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in North China announced in a communique issued at 10 o'clock this morning that the valley of the Tsinho River, as well as the sector surrounding Tsehchow, Chinese stronghold in southern Shansi which capitulated to the Japanese yesterday, is under the control of the Japanese forces.
Fifteen Chinese divisions, including the 14th, 27th, 47th, 21st, 93rd Chinese Armies, the communique declared, are in the sector around which the Japanese have succeeded in throwing a steel ring—Domei,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.