IN SOUTH CHINA.
JAPANESE MOVEMENTS
Received December 16, 1.45 p.m. SHANGHAI, Dec. 15. Reports from Canton state that twelve Japanese troop-laden transports with a strong naval escort are approaching Towshan. 150 miles southwest of Hong Kong. Hong Kong reports that many thousands (if Japanese soldiers are encamped on island bases between Hainan and the Pearl delta. The Telegraph’s Peiping correspondent says China’s old five-barred flag, for the first time since the republic was declared in 1911, has been ceremoniously hoisted by the new National Government. One ex-Premier and eight ex-Ministors were sworn in as members of tlie new provisional republican anti-Cominunistic regime.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 10
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