Chungking, June 27.
"The Japanese seventh offensive against the Chinese forces holding out in the Chungtiao mountains has once more ended in failure," declare Chinese dispatches received here today from the South Shansi front. The Japanese, they add, are retreating towards the railway zone.
Japanese forces on June 20, continue the dispatches, started a four column drive into the Chungtiao mountains, and the Chinese troops withdrew into the mountains on both sides of the highway from Hsiansien te Kaolo.
The Japanese are reported to have launched a general offensive on the Chinese lines on June 22 and June 23, "but owing to the withdrawal of the main body of the Chinese troops into the mountains, the Chinese did not suffer material losses."
The Japanese are said then to have occupied Yuanchu.
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