Peiping, June 3.
[APANESE operations in.south Shansi have not been entirely J, successful, and the Japanese are suffering considerable losses, according to reports indicate that many Chinese units have broken through the Japanese encirclement, and that fighting is spreading to central Shansi.
Meanwhile, there has been a sudden recrudescence of Chinese guerilla activities in North China.
'A passenger train was blown up on Sunday by a mine north of Paotingfu, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway. Many passengers were killed and injured, Japanese Review May Battles Hankow, June 3, A Genos of smashing operations ried out, by Japenese, troops ta, the regions both north and south of the Yangtze River during the month of May have resulted in the successful forestalling of Chinese attempts to counter-attack "Japanese positions there, the Press Section of the Japanese Expeditionary Force sto Central China announced todas Starting action on May 6, one Japanese force attacked Chungking troops of the Fifth War Zone, under the command of General Li Tsung-Jen, in northern Hupeh Province, the announcement said, while another Japanese force encountered a considerably large number of enemy: regulars and Irregulars in southern Hunan Province which is part of the Ninth War Zone.
The communique disclosed that Japanese forces completed their respective operations on May 23 which resulted in Chinese troops abandoning a total of 10,634 dead, while more than 1,700 Chinese soldiers, including 73 amicers, surrendered to the Japan ese troops with nine heavy and light machine guns, and 6,823 rifles. Other war material' captured included 12 trench mortars, 112 heavy and light machine guns, 3,282 rifles and 500,000 rounds of ammunition—Domei,
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