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"carrying everything before them," the communique stated, Sighting 37 tanks at Waiyeung, about 60 kin. north of the shore-line, Japanese aircraft demolished and disabled them in a bombing attack, the Naval Section of the Imperial General Headquarters announced in a communique yesterday, Military observers believed that the Japanese columns would strike west from Tamshui to Tangtowsiahui or a point near-by in order to cut the Cantqn-Kowloon Railway. Tangtowsiahui is about 35 kin. west of Tamshui, About 40 kin. north of Tamshui lies Waiyeung, important town at the junction of highways running west to Canton and east to far distant Swatow.
It was likely that Japanese columns would continue both north and west from Tamshui to carry out their characteristic encircling operations, military observers said. No intimation was given in official quarters as to the immediate objectives of the South China drive.
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