FOOD SHORTAGE
POSITION IN HONG KONG SERIOUS SUPPLIES FROM CANTON CUT OFF. CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENTS ON MAINLAND. LONDON, October 17. Hong Kong is acutely feeling the shortage of supplies, due to the cutting off of communications to Canton. Prices have doubled since Friday. The Government is requisitioning food, controlling prices and has urgently ordered shiploads of vegetables from Manila. It is reported that the latest Japanese landing point in South China is the delta 1 of the Pearl River, Britain’s mainland possession opposite Hong Kopg. The Shanghai correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that the Japanese forces advancing on Hankow have captured Shihweiyao, outflanking' the Chinese at Tayeh and Yangsin. They secured Mount Tzekingshan, on the south bank of the Yangtse, cut off the Chinese retreat along the Han-kow-Nanchang highway, and occupied Tiehtoushan. JAPANESE OFFER. FOOD FROM FORMOSA. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) HONG KONG, October 17. The Japanese Consol-General has offered to replenish the colony’s food shortage, with supplies from Formosa. CHINESE COUNTER ATTACK. VITAL POSITION RECAPTURED. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) HANKOW, October 17. The Chinese have recaptured Shihweiyao.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 5
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