The Archive · 1941

509 Engagements

In December

Tsinan, Jan, 11, Japanese forces engaged Chungking. troops 509 times last December, in which Communists were engaged 204 times, it was disclosed in w feld despatch reaching here today:

Total Chinese strength was 120,- '732, Communist forees comprising 74482 of this number. according the report, Losses sustained by the Chinese were 4,420 offers and men Killed, out of ' which Communists were 2,808. Captured officers and men tetelled 520, said the despatch.

In addition, Japanese forces captured great quantities of various arms and ammunition, the report Chinese Planes in

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