MARCH ON CANTON
EASTERN SECTION OCCUPIED CHINESE FORGES DEFEATED. EVACUATION CONTINUES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 21. The Canton correspondent of the British United Press says that the Japanese vanguard, consisting of three thousand mechanised troops, accompanied by tanks, completed the occupation of the eastern section of the city by 4.40 p.m., having outstripped the main body of thirty thousand infantry who arrived later by railway from Tsengtsing after defeating the Chinese in this locality. The invaders have not yet attempted to occupy the western or central districts from which evacuation continues. The capital has taken on the appearance of a besieged city in which 1100 foreigners, including Britons, are determined to remain. The complete fall of Canton will isolate Hongkong from the remainder of China. The retreating Chinese dynamited the Pearl River bridge valued at £425,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1938, Page 6
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143MARCH ON CANTON Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1938, Page 6
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