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CHINESE TROOPS FALLING BACK
Japanese Objective BRITISH LEGION-RELIEF
15 Miles North Of British Border
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
Canton, To-day.
Chinese military circles here admitted this morning that little resistance is being offered to the Jap- anese forces whose advance on the Kowloon- Canton Railway is proceeding at an increas- ingly rapid rate..
It is stated, however, that the Chinese defence plan has never envisaged any effort to stand and fight near the coast, and that the present re- tirement of the Kwangtung forces is according to the plan of operations mapped out months ago.
TO BE DEMOBILISED
London, To-day.
The decision made known in Berlin yesterday that no plebis
cites would be held in the Sade. ten-Czech areas did not come as a surprise to political circles here.
It is stated that on Wednesday the likelihood of such a decision
was made known to the leader of the British Legion selected for po- lice service in Czecho-Slovakla by the Foreign Office. It is stated that the 1,200 nien of the British Legion will be released on Friday,
The British Government is very satisfied at the Berlin décision as all possible complications have thus been avoided Trans-Occan.
PAYING FOR SOUTH CHINA CAMPAIGN
Tokyo, To-day.
MEASURES FOR REFUGEES
Relief of the refugees who are expected to pour into Hong Kong and Kowloon as a result of the Japanese invasion of South China. was discussed yesterday at emergency meeting of the Hong Kong Refugees Relief Commission, which was formed by various local Chinese circles.
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Madame Liao Chung-kai propos- ed that $1,000 be allotted for emergency relief. The money is to be entrusted to the local Salvation Army for providing porridge to [refugees arriving in the New Ter- ritories from the fighting areas.
Further relief measures are tô be decided upon when circum- stances demand-Central News.
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intends to withdraw the bank notes the banknotes withdrawn will be
The Japanese who captured Tamshui are now driv-
The Japanese Note Issue Bank ing rapidly down the valley of the Taikong
now in circulation in Central China, River, are not expected to meet with much op-states the "Asahi Shimbun".
For this purpose agents of the position in their attack on the Kowloon railway Bank will be appointed in Shang- via Lungkong.
They are expected to reach the railway at a point between ten and fifteen miles from the New Terri- tories border,
200 CASUALTIES IN KUKONG BOMBING
Canton, To-day.
It is how learned that more than
200 people were killed and wound-
· Tokyo, To-day. Bias Bay as the point of the Ja- panese landing in South China is mentioned in an official Japanese report for the first time to-day,
It appeared in communique Is- sued by Imperial Headquarters at 10.00 a.m. Previously Bias Bay had not been mentioned in any official report published in Japan.
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The communique records "ŢA- panese units carried everything fore them."Reuter.
OFFICIAL CLAIMS.
ed when over 20 bombs hit a clus- An official Japanese communique
ter of cargo boats on the Tsing claims that the troops landed in
River in Kukong, northern Kwang-the south-e tung, during the Japanese air raid tung
there yesterday.
chaualty.
Several incendiary bombs set stendfly adv many of the vessels on fire.
Over 10 causing
silen fell on a farm, the co
ialties: among unged
alter there.
part of Kwang- vithout a single cho trả hơn Inland:
hai, Nanking, Hangchow and Soo- chow to carry out the operation.
The "Asahi Shimbun” adds that
replaced by "war notes" with which also the costs of the Japanese cam- paign in South China will be paid.
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