CHINESE ADMIT IMPORTANT LOSS
(Received 10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, November 30, The Chinese admit the loss of the vitally-important Kaingyin forts. This leaves the Japanese free to make a breach in the river boom, sweep the minefields, steam up the river and bombard Chinkiang, 60 miles by river from Nanking. After a thorough inspection of the Nanking defences, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek said he was well satisfied and ready to meet the Japanese onslaught. His wife is remaining at Nanking. It 'is expected that the Japanese will station a crack front-line regiment at Shanghai as a permanent garrison, A traveller from Sunkiang to Shanghai describes -as pitiful the devastation over enormous tracts of the Yangste delta. He saw only five Chinese. Once-thriving farmlands were deserted, and a vast expanse of rice crops was unharvested and in ruins.
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1937, Page 5
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