DRIVE ON NANKING
Japanese Almost Within Artillery Range (Eeceived 29, 8.45 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Nov. 28. The Japanese, following their capture of Wusing and Ihing, are almost within artillery range of Nankingm but Marshal Chiang Kai-shek 's troops are preparing a desperate resistance, with 12 di.visions manning the adjacent defences, besides 40.000 Szechwan troops garrisoning ihe city, which, however, is suffering from an acute shortage of food. In the hope of preventing the transport of munitions to China a20 Japanese planes dropped more than a hundred bombs on the Canton-Kowloon railway, says a Hongkong message. Hundreds of f eet of track were torn up^ necessi.tating the suspension of the service for two days. The Times Tokio correspondent says that a Chinese general commaiiding 6000 riflemen and 1000 spearmen Burrendered uncouditionally at Weihsen.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 5
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