Tokyo, May 10.
Chinese troop losses during the past year totalled 264,98 dead and 19,740 taken prisoner, Major-General Akira Muto, director of the Military Administration Bureau of the War Office, said here yesterday in an address at the closing session of the annual conference of prefectural governors.
During the same period 5,767 Japanese soldiers were killed, the officer said.
Heaviest Chinese losses were suffered during the April-July and September offensives last year, when 94,358 men were killed, Major-Gen. Muto said. During the Pinyang campaign in Kwangsi early this year 46,- 800 fell and between Yochow and Nanchang last September the dead numbered 38400. Other heavy troops losses were felt last month in southern Shansi, during the present Honan-Hupeh offensive and in northern Kwangtung last December, he declared.
Major-Gen. Muto said that 2,665 Japanese soldiers were killed during the April-July and September offend sives while Yochow, Nanning, and Nanchang saw other Japanese losses.—Domei.
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