Chinese Drive Is Ceasing
(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 20
The “Daily Telegraph’s” Hongkong representative says that the Chinese hopes of recapturing Canton are considered remote.
Both sides are bringing up reinforcements, and bitter fighting is raging, particularly rpund Tsengshing.
The Chinese drive in Honan Province has apparently been brought to a standstill with the Japanese recapture of Chungmu, south of* Kaifeng, and the repulse of the Chinese attack on Siangyang, in Hupeh Province. Tension has suddenly developed on the coast ax Fukien, where Chinese fear the invasion of Foochow, in view of the massing of Japanese warships and transports at the mouth of the Mm River.
A Tokio message states that Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang have been constituted a Japanese controlled municipality.
Japan hopes to organise a new administration to govern the provinces of Honan, Kiangsi and Hupeh.
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Northern Advocate, 21 April 1939, Page 8
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