The Archive · 1939

Active South of Yangtze

In regions south of the Yangtze Chinese troops were more active but they appeared to have given up tempts to recapture Nanchang, Wunning and Tsingan, military authorities said, They have been engaged recently in defence tactics and in sending small bands of guerillas into Japanese-occupied zones.

In these areas the Japanese forces killed 1,665 and took 163 prison fers in battles with an aggregate of 25630 Chinese troops.

Booty included 351 rides, 44,316 rounds of ammunition, 19 Czechoslovakian machine guns, "1,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition, 4444 hand grenades and 60 shells—Bomel,

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