Canton, Oct. 21.
Tanks and armoured cars carrying wildly cheering Japanese soldiers rumbled through the gates of Canton at 230 pin. yesterday as the famed City of Rams fell with scarcely a struggle in the sensational climax the swiftest campaign of the hostilities to date.
Kwangtung leaders were reported 'A Domei flash relayed from the commander of a warship, which had received wireless reports from pilots of reconnaissance planes, stated definitely that Japanese troops were inside the efty and that mopping up operations were going on.
Small-scale Aghting was reported to be under way in some quarters of the city, but no major clashes were 'The general populace in Canton was reported to be calm, despite the Immediate: threat to the' ily. The authorities "in the" British Cone fession at Shameen were making all Dreparations to" cope' with any tio, pinic, "ays inrush of refugees, oF titer' Untoward incidents
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