Tsinan, Jan, Chungking forces operating in south-eastern Hopeh, near Kuchen, suffered a crushing defeat on the last day of last year when Japanese troops niddenly launched a smashing attack against 1,000 enemy forces comprising part of the 220th Division of the Com-Imunist Eighth Route Army, belated Meld reports teaching here tody Fe-'In this single encounter, the Chinese Hed, leaving 152 officers and men abandoned on the fold of battle, the reports said, North-east of Tsinan, other reports stated, Chungking {roops numbering 1,800 were routed after 9 five-hour engagement in which the enemy suffered severe Despatches from the front also revealed that 102 Chinese dead were picked up by the Japanese when a Chinese unit of 600 belonging to the Gist Division was routed at Hanchwang, 30 kilometres west of Fenhsie}, on the Kiangsu-Shantung border on January 4—Domel, Chusan Island Operations
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