Hongkong, Oct, 18, According to a very reliable Chinese observer, who has returned from the Bias Bay region, severe fighting is now going on between the Japanese and Chinese between Pingshan and Namshan, off Bias Boy. where Japanese troops have also been landed, The town of "Tamshui has bees heavily bombed by the Japanese, und now more or less in ruins. It is also reliably earned that the Japan ese troops have been repulsed Aotac. All. the bridges along the highways leading to Waichow, which definitely the objective of the ypanese, have been completely @estroyed by the Chinese, While further landings of Japanese troops are reported to be taking place north of Bias Bay, with the intention of carrying out a pincer movement, those forces which landed yesterday and are marching inland towards Wachow, are said to be meeting with increasing resistance from the Chinese, At present there is a concentration of from 40 to 50 Sapanese vessels at /Swatow,' according to information from reliable sources in Canton, and it Is believed that a landing of troops imminent for the purpose of mi ching down the—Swatow-Waichow highway and joining the Japanese forees which have Innded in Bias Bay.
More than 100 Japanese planes, from the Bias Bay concentration bombed numerous towns and villages along the projected route, which it was thought the Japanese—force: would follow in their drive towards Canton, Chinese reports stated today Waichow was said to have suffered particularly heavily, presumably. be Jeause of the concentration of Chinese troops there.
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