Japanese Army and Navy spokesmen in Shanghai yesterday again emphatically denied that Japanese forces had withdrawn towards Canton from Samshui, important railhead west of the City of Rams. Press dispatches from Hongkong alleged on Saturday that unnamed "Japanese sources" in ihe British colony had admitted the Japanese evacuation of Samshui.
According to aerial observations made on Saturday, a naval spokesman said there were no signs of Chinese military activity near Samshui On the previous day, he claimed, a combined Army and Navy force had put to flight about 300 Chinese from Makow, a town "a little above Samshui." Naval aircraft had cooperated in this operation. The engagement was described by the spokesman as minor. " We have grounds to believe that this Japanese success near Samshui was distorted into a Chinese victory," he declared.
Japanese naval aircraft, he continued, engaged in bombing operations north-east and north-west of Canton, both in Kwangtung and Kwangsi. Attacked were barracks near Hohsien, in eastern Kwangsi, and military establishments at Lienchow and Yungyun in Kwangtung.
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