Ningpo, June 2, Chinese dead abandoned during May operations in, East Chekiang Province totalled 1,727, it was an= nounced here today.
During the same period, 170 prison ers were taken, while 43 voluntarily surrendered tothe Japanese, Booty seized included 772 rifles, 204,007 rounds of rifle ammunition, nine heavy machine-guns, 4,020 rounds of machine-gun ammunition, 033 hand~ grenades, 9,400 dum dum bullets, 22 automobiles and large quantities of other arms and ammunition—Domel, Two hundred guerillas raided Liuho, near where the Sina-Japanese frst began four years ai The guerillas drove out the Japanese-trained Chinese troops from this town, on the railway 40 miles south of Peiping.
'Other guerillas raided two small towns close to the north of Peiping. and looted them, while further east the track of the' Peiping-Jehol railway was torn up, The local Japanese press announces a fresh large-scale anti-guerilla drive in this (Hopei) province by 20.000 Japanese troops with aeroplane sup-
Chungking Claims Successes Chungking, June 3.
Further Chinese successes in fierce \Oghting in the mountainous province of Shansi and in South China are announced in the latest Chinese feld despatches. Heavy fighting is raging inthe "Taihanshan mountains. in south-east Shansi west of the highway between Changtze ard Kaoping.
The Chinese claim a victory also at Tabu, in the hills north-west. of Foochow. They state that after luring the Japsnese into the mountains, the Chinese counter-attacked on May 30, inflicting serious losses on the Japan-
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