JAPANESE TROOPS
LANDINGS IN SOUTH CHINA AT TWO NEW POINTS . SHANGHAI, Feb. 18. (Received Feb. 19, at 11 p.m.) According to Chinese sources the Japanese have landed at two new points in South China. One thousand infantrymen landed at Haiteng and an unknown number at Liuchow Peninsula, near the Frenchleased territory of Kwangchow. It is believed here that both are punitive expeditions. A New York message states that the Chungking correspondent of the New York Times reports that the Chinese claim to be within a mile of Nanning. As long columns of Japanese troops and guns are striking southward and there are many fires in the city, the Chinese are hopeful that the Japanese are abandoning it. The Japanese deny that they are evacuating the city. BOMBING OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC DISRUPTED SHANGHAI, Feb. 18. (Received Feb. 19, at 9.37 p.m.) In the third raid since the French protest, 27 Japanese planes bombed the Yunnan-Kunming railway, completely disrupting traffic. A Chungking message says it is claimed that the Japanese raiders violated French rights by flying over French Indo-China.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24227, 20 February 1940, Page 9
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