Shanghel, Nov. 21.
Japanese Army and Navy spokes~ men in Shanghai yesterday again em-Phatleally denied that Japanese forces had withdrawn towards Canton from Samshui, important railhead west of the City of Rams.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 the British colony had admitted the [Japanese evacuation of Samshui.
According to serial observations! made on Saturday, a naval spokesman ald there were no signs of Chinese military activity near, Samshui. On the previous day, he claimed, a com-[bined 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 enagement 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 opera tions north-east, and north-west of Canton, both in Kwangtung and Kwangsi. Attacked were barracks near Holisien, in eastern Kwangsi, and military establishments at Lienchow jand Yungyun in Kwangtung.
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