SOUTH CHINA
EXTENSION OF JAPANESE INVASION MORE TROOPS LANuED. BOMBERS RAZING CITIES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Hong Kong correspondent says troops continue to disembark in South China. The total at present is 100,000, against whom a million Kwantung troops can be thrown within a week. Twenty Japanese transports, escorted by fifteen warships, landed detachments at Taichau Bay, six miles from the Hong Kong frontier. These attacked the heavily fortified city of Nantau, of 25,000 inhabitants. The first force, landed at Bias Bay, reached the Waichow-Nimshan Railway, where later detachments from Bias Bay joined them. The fall of Waichow, where Canton’s defence zone begins, would open three routes of invasion. Japanese bombers have already razed Waichow, Chengmuktau, Piklo and Sheklung. They killed 250 persons at Swatow and dropped handbills declaring that, in default of surrender, all cities will be destroyed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 6
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