Chungking, May 1 Heavy fighting is in progress in the eastern section of the Chungtio mountains, in Southern Shansi, the outcome "of which may determine whether the Japanese will have com. plete control of the north bank of the Yellow River, according to a Chinese military spokesman at a ress conference this afternoon, The Chinese in the western section of the mountains. the spokesman admitted, were being hard Dressed by the Japanese, but -he claimed that Chinese forees were still holding their ground in the eastern section."—Reuter, Chungking Generat Killed Shansi, Honan Battles Honan, May 14, Confirming the statement made by Lieutenant-General Kung Pinsfan, commander of the Chungking with Who was captured yester-that General Tan Huai-yuan, Conimander-in-Chief of the Chung" King Third Army was killed, high Japanese officers today viewed the: hhody of the Chinese commander, It was reported, A Surgeon Major—General and a Licutenaiit-General of the Japanese Army, it was reported. inspected the body of General Tan,—Domei, Shai Honan Operations "North China, May 13, The Japanese campaign in worth ern Honan and southern Shansi Pro-
North China, May 16 'As Japanese troops moved in set closer' to 120,000 Chinese troops trapped within'a Japanese cordon, reports tonight "said that General Tsen Wan-chung's Fifth Group Army southern Shansi Province had been practically wiped out as a result of all out Japanese onslaughts, with 7,000 having been taken prisoners, Simultaneously. it was reported that the Chungking 98th Army which resisted tenaciously at' the heights near Tungiengehen since the night of May 12. was. also annihilated by yesterday evening, with Japanese forees advancing in several directions from the Tsin River.
Six detachments converged along the Tein River valley. while encirele-
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