Perpignan, Jan. 30. troops have or-along a battle line of Barcelona for a the relentless drive reports from said today. "their final hope. There Tokyo, Jan. 31.
paigns ai remnants of Chinese Recent eaner mopping-up, am-troops and guerillas in North, Central, and South China resulted in heavy Chinese losses, field dispatches reaching here today said.
Especially successful have been the mopping-up operations of Japanese troops in the Chungchiao mountain range, in southern Shansi province, which runs parallel to the Yellow River, the reports said.
Two Japanese detachments, which started an attack against the combined force of 14,700 Shansi and Shensi troops in the Chungchiao mountains on January 23 successfully concluded the drive after six days of fighting.
(Chinese troops left 2,700. dea including two regimental command. ers. Among the 391 prisoners taken, five commissioned and one noncommissioned officers were included, the report claimed. Japanese booty taken included 53 horses, 23 trench-mortars, 98 trench-mortar shells, eight heavy machine-guns, 1,900 heavy machine-gun shells 21 light machine-guns, 332 rifles with 2,400 rounds of ammunition, 867 hand-grandes and ten automatic rifles.
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