With Japanese Forces in Southern Honan, Feb. 2.
Composite results of Japanese mop" ping-up operations In which. seven Japenese tolls captured Mingkdang, Kceshan, Chumatien,. Sniping and Siping slong. the Peiping-Hankow Railway, as well 0s Shangtsal in their apldeestward onslaughts, In com operation with five Japanese motile Unis and three artillery uns, are reported to\ be as follows—
kilometres south of Sulping, the The Ponchwang" area, enemy suffered a, loss of 200" killed with 60 prisoners being Laken, while the Japanese gained a Toot of 30 light Iachine-guns, 6850" rifles, 25,600 Tounds of rifle ammunition.' and 500 hand grenades.
the Siping area, where the Japanese fought with the Chungking ist Reserve Division and 8th Division troops, the enemy abandoned 009 dead while the Japanese seised 120 Files "and 12,000" rounds of rife Tu Shangteal area, where the bulk of "the Chungking "23rd. and. 127th Divisions were encountered, "the enemy let 102 corpses, while. the apanese captured 10 light: machine Buns, 208 Files, 48520 rounds of rifle Smmunition and 210 shells of trench Siangcheng Captured A Japanese Air Base {in Central China, Feb. 2.
According to reports of Japanese ting the way in eastern Honan, thrust into the walled town of' Siangcheng, native place of General Yuan Shih: kal, rst President of the Chinese Republic, at 3 o'clock yesterday Succeeding Japanese troops entered the town and liquidated Chungking! remnants within the walled town, Chungking stragglers are now being hotly pursued by five other Japanese units who launched operations out of Maowan, key-point on the same highway.
'Two formations of. Japanes planes upon receipt of information' that 4000 Chungking remnants were being massed at Sinyeh, 200 kilometres west of Sinyang, " yesterday} afternoon winged their. way across the Tapieh Mountains to this sector Jand "machine-gunned enemy" concentrations, a fled despatch dis.
All the Japanese planes. returned to their base unscathed—Domel.
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