THE WAR IN CHINA
NEW JAPANESE OFFENSIVE
(Rec. 2 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Sept. 28,
The Japanese South China Command announced that the Japanese are advancing into North Kwantung, with little Chinese resistance.
The Domei news agency states that successful conclusion of this advance has given the Japanese control of the entire length of the Canton-Hankow railway. It is believed that the Japanese are planning the biggest offensive since the fall of Hankow.
This is aimed at severing South China into two sections lying east and west of the Canton-Hankow railway.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 78, 29 September 1941, Page 8
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