Peiping, Apr. 23.
An intensive three-day campaign against Chinese forces massed at Pinglu and Maotsngtü, on the northern bank of the Yellow River in southern Shansi, has ended in the "complete rout" of the Chinese Fourth Group Army unger the command of General Wei Li-huang, the headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in North China declared today.
The campaign, the announcement added, had checked the efforts of the Chinese forces under General Wei to operate in the mountain regions in With his clothes badly torn and his head covered with blood, Yang Tsang-Jong, 29-year old Chinese money changer, was found strangled to death in cabin 114 in the first class section of the s. Hakone Maru, N.Y.K. liner which was moored to the N.Y.K. Wayside Wharf about 11 p.m. on Monday. The motive for his murder is apparently a mystery as the dead man had on his person when he found, a quantity of money in yen, Chinese national currency and Hongkong dollars. The Japanese Consular Police are investigating the murder.
The dead man was found about 11 pin. on Monday by the assistant purser in the Hakone Maru. The assistant purser was inspecting the ship's cabins and when he came to 114 he found the door locked. He looked in through a port hole and saw the dead Chinese lying on the floor of the cabin and went to call the purser. The purser opened the door to the cabin with a duplicate key and then notified the Japanese Consular Police. In addition to the torn clothes of the dead man and the bloody appearance of the body, the cabin was disarranged, giving mute evidence that a terrific struggle had taken place within.
The Shanghai Municipal Police were notified of the murder at 3
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