Chungking, Nov. 1 "Canton ina week," is' the slogan of the Chinese columns at present Guerillas Dispersed Canton, Nov. 12.
Bands of Chinese guerillas harrass-Ing Japanese troops and cominunication lines along the Canton-Kowloon Railway east of Canton and south of the East River have been completely routed with heavy losses, Japanese military authorities claimed toddy.
'A levee of 700 guerillas armed with] trench mortars and automatic rifes fed from the railway zone, leaving 200 dead and quantities of ame munition, Trregulars comprising part of the 1suth Division "of the ' Kwangtung Army, a special service battalion from Tsengcheng and Tungkun, part of the 36th Corps from Tungkun, and number of armed civilians, had been active in the area south of the East cording to'n Chinese, communique re Set. vas poing toeeing their way southwards ae] Fiver restored rapid ceived here today. The dispatch Jig the areas under Japanese occupa Mates that the Chinese advance is tion"miitary. nuthorines announced, the, rallwa three ave tions down Lpgbigation of shine language newspaper was. started yesterday Chiangtsun ix reported to have tudor the supervision of the Japanese been recaptured west of the rollway and' Talang. has now fallen into Chinese hands, While the eastward fine of the Chinese troops are at Chishosze. Hiwelyang, near Poko, fon the East River, is expected to be taken soon, and fighting is now in progress on the outskirts of the town.
The communique also says that Cantonese militia from Swatow and Chaochow are reinforcing Chinese troops in a drive in that direction on Canton.
Guerilla bands, it adds, are very active along the Canton-Kowloon Railway,—Reuter,
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