Hankow, Feb. 12.
Failure of the so-called "winter offensive" and dejection over poor military supplies, coupled with' the growing influence of the peace move-
Japanese army authorities here said that 596 officers and men, includ~ ing to the People's Self-Protection Corps, and 48 officers and men, in-eluding one compony commander and one staff major, of the 42nd Regime fof the Mist Division, deserted ai surrendered to the Japanese south of Juichang, along the Kiukiang-Chang: sha Railway, on February 7.
Four Japanese detachments operat ing north of the Yangtze during the period from Tuesday to Friday launched furious attacks upon troops. of the §6th Division in mountains near Loyangtien, 30 kin, south of Sulhsien in Hupeh, and put them to route, The Chinese left 652 dead and large quantities of arms and ammunition.
South of the Yangtze a Japanese detachment defeated stragglers in a battle east of Juichang, south-west of Kiukiang in Kiangsi, at dawn on Wednesday—Domel.
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