ADVANCE ON CANTON
CHINESE RESISTANCE COLLAPSING FALL OF CITY ONLY A QUESTION OF DAYS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 20. The Hongkong correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ reports that the Chinese resistance in the South China invasion is apparently collapsing. The 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 westwards along the Canton-Kbwloon 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 lauding at Bias Bay the Japanese advance has averaged 12 miles a day.
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Evening Star, Issue 23094, 21 October 1938, Page 9
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115ADVANCE ON CANTON Evening Star, Issue 23094, 21 October 1938, Page 9
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