SIGNS OF COLLAPSE
EARLY FALL OF CANTON PREDICTED RACE BETWEEN JAPANESE COLUMNS ADVANCE OF TWELVE MILES A DAY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. October 20. The Hong Kong correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” reports that the Chinese resistance to the south China invasion is apparently collapsing. ' A Japanese column is within 25 miles of Canton, the advance on which is developing into a race between the Japanese troops striking south-west along the highway from Tsengcheng and those striking westward along the Canton-Kowloon railway from Sheklung, which fell yesterday. Military observers predict that the city’s fall is only a question of days. They point out that since the landing at Bias Bay, the Japanese advance has averaged 12 miles daily.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1938, Page 5
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118SIGNS OF COLLAPSE Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1938, Page 5
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