No Central troops have yet reached Canton, reliable Chinese sources here revealed to foreign correspondents. Charges that Cantonese troops were demoralized by the rapid advance of the Japanese were strongly refuted in Cantonese military circles here. The lack of men and the inadequacy of the equipment of the local milita and poorly-trained provincial levies, were blamed for the almost total lack of resistance against the Japanese.
General Vu Han-mou, Pacification Commissioner for Kwangtung, was reported to be making repeated demands upon the Nationalist government for the dispatch of Central troops and aircraft—Domei,
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