5. Chinese troops numbering 20,000 from the '75th and 80th Divisions which attempted to. recapture Foochow were decisively defeated in the Tatler part of May:
Japanese military police and garrisons were now engaged in clean= ing up remnant guerillas and restor= ing peace and order in the regions under Japanese control, and 7, Besides cooperating brilliantly with land forces in all major campaigns, Japanese Army' air units blasted Chinese positions in the direc tions of Hoyun, Tsingyuan, Sihut and Chaoking, in" Kwangtung Province.
The communique added that Chinese troops left 3,554 dead in various campaigns, white 2201 were taken prisoner By Japanese troops which captured 31 junks, 81 light and heavy. machine guns, 410,000 rounds. ammunition as well as a large quantly, of other war materials—Domel,
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