Kaifeng, Mar. 4.
Japanese columns engaged in operations against the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army yesterday inflicted severe losses on 1,000 Reds at a point approximately 30 kilometres south of Puyang, in southern Hopeh Province, it was disclosed. Retreating Communist forces abandoned 115 dead as well as seven who were taken prisoner.—Domei, Chungking Report Chungking, Mar. 5.
The lengthiest report yet heard at the National People's Political Council was that given yesterday morning on military affairs during the past ten months by General Ho Ying-ching, Minister of War and concurrently Chief of the General Staff, which lasted three hours and 15 minutes after which Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance, made a report on financial affairs.
A special article in this mornings official "Central Daily News" written by General Hsu Pei-keng, the well known Chinese military writer, says: "As long as 5,000 years ago the Chinese repelled foreign invasion after a long retreat and prolonged warfare. Under the reign of the Emperor Huang Ti, southern tribes under the leadership of Chih Vu invaded China, and the Chinese troops steadily retreated nearly 500 miles from the fertile plains of Southern Honan into the hills in North Hope, beyond the Great Wall, where the Chinese in a final battle, decisively defeated the invaders"—Reuter.
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