MOMENTOUS BATTLE.
BIG OFFENSIVE FOR CANTON
JAPANESE HARD-PRESSED
Received April 18 11.55 a.m. LONDON, April 17. The Daily Telegraph’s Hong Kong correspondent says that the battle for Canton over-shadows all other operations throughout China. The Chinese offensive, which is unprecedentedly well-sustained, is irresistibly recovering the outer environments which the Japanese have held since October. The defenders are hurling lorries full of troops and all available mechanised units to the outskirts in order to reinforce the stricken fighters, but these are apparently counter-matched hv fresh and eager divisions which are steadily reinforcing the Chinese Com-nv'.nder-in-Chief (General Chang Fakwei). who is forging a passage to Canton in the hop? of encircling the city from which he is 18 miles distant.
He is supported by subsidiary columns, which are repelling the Japanese to the last defences.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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