JAPANESE LANDING
NEW PHASE OF WAR IN CHINA INVADERS NOT OPPOSED AT BIAS BAY. CHINESE RALLY ON INLAND LINE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) HONG KONG, October 12. A new phase of the Sino-Japanese war opened when a powerful Japanese South China- expedition, estimated at between 30,000 and 35,000 men landed at Bias Bay. One report says 50,000 men were landed, principally at Haehung, from seventy transports, covered by at least fifty naval craft. They met little- resistance because of the swampy area being unsuitable for fortifications, and the fact that the defenders would have been faced, not only by the invaders but with a concentrated fire from Japanese warships. The invaders pressed on towards Waichow, twenty miles inland, where Chinese troops have rallied at the last of the outer lines protecting the great port of Canton.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 8
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