TROOPS CLOSING IN ON CANTON
STRATEGIC CITY RECAPTURED rt’.P.A.— By Electric: Telegraph-CoorrmhC | • Received 18th April. 9.15 a.m.» I, LONDON, 17th April. j Reports from Hong Kong state ’ that the Chinese offensive rolls on along the entire 1500-mile front. The Chinese are steadily closing j, ;in on Canton. leaving the Japanese , j with the only outlet by the Pearl I River, which is at present being kep*, 1 clear only the overwhelming super- , iority of naval guns. The Chinese have captured the , strategic city of Maotsin on the Yellow j. River, thus removing the threat to their communications with Russia The Chungking correspondent of , “The Times” says that the Chinese j have occupied Tsengchen Tungshu, and Fushan. The Chinese have blown up four bridges on the Tientsin-Pakow railway, disrupting traffic between Tientsin and Nanking.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 April 1939, Page 5
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