Japanese forces operating on the Shanghai front scored another significant victory early Monday morning when three columns converging on Quinsan, strategic Chinese stronghold, took the position at six o'clock.
Under cover of a heavy artillery barrage, the Japanese columns in ce-operation with engineer corps units stormed the city walls, according to a military communique issued yesterday morning.
After brief skirmishes, the statement said. the Chinese capitulated. Rising-sun flags. the communique asserted. were immediately raised above the city walls, Chinese forces retreating in a westerly direction. the statement added. were being pursued According to the communique, the assault on Quinsan, contrary to previous expectations, was carried cut with comparative ease. The statement added in conclusion that there are now no Chinese forces Japanese Warships in South China Make Search Hongkong, Nov. 15.
The steamer Taihing, owned by the Sang Wo Steamship Company. was halted and searched by Japanese warships in South China waters on Saturday.
The original report stating that the Butterfield and Swire steamer Kaiying had undergone this experience, was proven to be incorrect. The s. Kaiying had reported being held up. apparently by a typhoon, and this message apparently was misconstrued. The similarity between the names of the Kaiying and Taihing also contributed to the error.
The s. Taihing was en route from Saigon to Hongkong when halted and searched by the Japanese warships-(-United Press. within a radius of fifty kilometres of Shanghai.
Japanese Army air units, operating in full force, since early yesterday morning have been attacking Chinese troops retreating in the areas north and west of Quinsan, according to a communique issued at 630 o'clock yesterday evening by the headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Force in Shanghai.
Army planes also bombed Chinese entrenchments at Changshu, Kashing. and Pinghu while covering the advance of land forces, damaging Chinese positions "considerable the communique said.
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