SEEN OFF CHINA COAST
(Received March 6, 12.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, March 5. The correspondent at Foochow of the “Shun pao” reports that 100 Japanese warships reached the Fukien (South China) coast on Monday and Tuesday. Some continued southward.
He 'expressed the opinion that the Japanese navy is starting a southward push. Other Chinese Press reports say that 13 Japanese warships were seen moving southward along the Chekiang coast on Monday, arriving near Chinchai in the morning and sailing again in the afternoon to the Chousan Islands.
The “Shun Pao” said that Chinese shore batteries sank a Japanese warship on February 27 when it attempted to land a force in Chekiang Province. The Japanese Southern Expeditionary Force headquarters announced that the landing on the Kwangtung coast was made for the purpose of cutting off one of the few remaining overland routes to unoccupied China.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 137, 6 March 1941, Page 8
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