DEFENCE OF CANTON
APPEAL TO GENERALISSIMO REINFORCEMENTS NEEDED. JAPANESE PREPARATIONS. (Received This Day. 1.5 p.m.) HONG KONG, October 19. The Japanese are 38 miles from Canton and fifty from Hankow. Mr Eugene Chen has appealed to Hankow for reinforcements to defend Canton, declaring that the rapid progress of the Japanese from the coast is attributable to Marshal Chiang Kaishek’s policy of denuding the Southern Provinces of their crack troops and airmen. Thousands of troops are going south and are expected to draw up fifteen miles from Canton, where a hundred thousand are already stationed. The Japanese are believed to be awaiting reinforcements before making a decisive push. They are apparently contemplating a naval attack, as sixty motor-boats have passed Swatow in the direction of Hong Kong.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1938, Page 8
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