CHINESE LOSSES AT SHANSI

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 17

CHINESE LOSSES AT SHANSI

JAPANESE REPORT OF RETREAT TOKYO, March 3. A Japanese military spokesman announces that China's Eighth Red Army has begun to retreat to the westward from the Yellow river to Shansi, after the loss of the border stronghold of Chungtu. This victory will cut off the Chinese supplies from Shansi. Several Chinese battalions are trapped in the Lung Shi-hsien area, and masses of dead around Pingyang suggest that the Chinese lost half their strength in Shansi. Official statistics show that the Japanese to March 1 destroyed 764 Chinese aeroplanes and lost 78 of their own. Chinese sources report that five Manchukuo Japanese divisions at Paotow mutinied and joined the Chinese. JAPANESE POLITICIAN ATTACKED FOUR MEN ASSAULT MEMBER OF DIET TOKYO, March 3. Professor Isoh Abe, president of the Social Mass Party in the Diet, had a jaw broken in an assault by four men who came to the door of his flat. The attack caused a sensation in the Diet, as it was coupled with the recent Fascist raid on the Minseito Party headquarters. The Prime Minister (Prince Konoye) promised that extra precautions would, be taken to protect members of the Diet.