Berlin, Oct. 22.
The fall of Canton was announced by the press here ti morning in banner headlines.
"Canton Occupied by the Japanese Without Resistance" the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" stated, while the "Voelkischer Beobachter" referred to the "Extraordinary Speed of the Canton Conquest."
"General Chiang Kai-shek made many mistakes," the "Berliner Tagebalti" said in its comment on Canton's fall "He believed that the Japanese could not manage further enterprises On a new field of operations. He believed that the British warning to Japan would be sufficient to prevent Japan from starting an action at the Very doors of Hongkong. It is not possible to believe that after this defeat, Cen. Chiang Kai-shek will be able to keep his present position."—Havas,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.