WARSHIPS MASS
JAPANESE OFF KWANTUNG INVASION OF SOUTH CHINA EXPECTED ATTACK IMMINENT (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SHANGHAI, May 31. The assumption is growing that a Japanese invasion of South China is imminent, coupled with the attack on the Canton-Hankow railway. Hongkong records the assemblage of numerous Japanese warships at the mouth of the Pearl River, and on the Kwantung coast. A cordial interview between Colonel Telfer-Smollett and the Japanese commander, General Hata, is expected immediately to improve Anglo-Japanese relations in the International Settlement.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 11
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