TWO COMMUNIST ARMIES THREATEN HONG KONG
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Received Monday, 12.36 p.m. HONG KONG, August '21. More British troops nioved today from Hong- Kong to frontier eamps to make room irt the receiving baffacks for reinforcements whleh arrived by the troopship Devonshire. These reinforcements bring the garrisonTs strength to more than 20,000. Most of the garrison are either quartered on Hong Kong Island ltself or in the New Territories— on the Chinese mainland on the border of Chinese territory. The troops are often drenehed two or three times daily by torrential seasonal rains as they carry out exercises over rugged hills and waterlogged paddy fields, but they are fast learning the terrain which they were sent here to defend. In Canton, 80 miles north of Hong King, hundreds of firms and private people are packing_ up in preparation for evacuation to Hong . Kong. Two Communist armies threaten Canton — one down the Haiigkow-Canton railway and the other along the coast frdm the northeast. The first arnly is driving towards Kukong on the railway, 125 miles north of Canton. In the 'coastal drive Communists are pushing down the Fooschow-^ Amoy highway. They are believed to be nearing PUtieh, which is about halfway between the two cities.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 August 1949, Page 5
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