Hangchow, Dec, 27, an effort to crush the bulk Of troops of the Chungking 192nd Division infesting "the hilly area centring on the Hangchow-Kashing Huchow triangular zone, four Japan. nese units on Tuesday closed in on. their encircling operation to a considerable extent, a belated war de-spate reaching here disclosed.
During engagements Chungking, troops abandoned 142 dead on the battlefield while the Japanese captured 162 prisoners.
Loot seized by the Japanese me fend of May, continued the.000 Chungking troops, who had managed fo filter into northern Kwangtung Province, where previo ly there were no anti-Japanese move ments, were smashed and disperse cly the Japanese.
"Winter operations were featured by two grent crushing movements by the Japanese, which completely nullified Jarge-scale Chungking preparations for a. winter offensive, and laid the foundation for the successful. estab-Tishment of the Nanking, Government,
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