FALL OF CANTON

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 22, 5 November 1938, Page 5

FALL OF CANTON

ORDER TO RECOVER CITY. CHIANG GIVES A FORTNIGHT, TO ATONE FOR PAST BLUNDERS. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 4. The Shanghai correspondent of “The Times” says that the military and civil authorities are held responsible for the fall of Canton, for which the Chinese Government has ordered them to atone for blunders.

The Huomin News Agency states that Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek has instructed the Kwangtung armies to recover Canton within a fortnight. Two hundred thousand well-equipped Kwangsi troops have already left Wuchow in order to co-operate in the operations. JAPAN’S OFFER TO CHINA. \ ‘ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL BLOC’ TOKIO, November 3.

The spokesman at the Japanese Foreign Office (Mr Tatsuo Kawai) said that if the Chinese Central Government would repudiate its past policy and remould its personnel Japan would not reject its co-operation in establishing peace and stability in Eastern Asia. Mr Kawai said that .peace and stability could be secured by Japan, Manchukuo, and China combining in a political, economic and cultural bloc. The establishment of such unity was the fundamental aim of the present “unofficial warfare.” He added that Japan was confident that other Powers would adapt their attitudes to the new conditions in East Asia.