JAPANESE DRIVE
CAPTURE OF CHINESE TOWNS [U.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copy right] Chungking, Apl. 21. A communique confirmed that 2000 Japanese landed at the Min River estuary and are advancing toward Foochow Another detachment captured Chenhai and Haimen on Sunday, while 2000 marching westward 15 miles from Haimen captured Huangyen. Another 3000 who captured Shaohsing were reinforced and are now reported to be converging on the railway town of Chuki, 40 miles south of Hangchow.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 22 April 1941, Page 5
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74JAPANESE DRIVE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 22 April 1941, Page 5
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