Meanwhile, reports reaching here from the South China front indicate that the steady. push of the Japanese troops up the West River has causer extreme confusion and fear in Wor chow, the important Chinese stromthold in Kwangsi province, All lvilians, according to rents Teaching here, have evacuated Wuchow which is now filled with Kwangsi troops and militiamen.
Strong defence works, the reports Jadded, are being constructed between Samshui, at the junction of the West and' North rivers, and Wuchow. The West river, it was Yeported, has been blocked ai several
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