Tokyo, Oct. 26.
Japanese mine-sweeping and boom-removing units operating on the Pearl River in South China have advanced approximately one-third of the distance between the Bocca Tigris forts and Canton, according to Domei dispatches reaching here.
Not a single Chinese junk has been seen on the Pearl River which had been hitherto crowded with junks and other kinds of vessels, Japanese aerial Observations revealed, according to field dispatches reaching here on Tuesday.
Four or five merchant vessels were found sunk near Haihhinsha to block the Pearl River, but this boom was not very well constructed, according io the reports. More booms were found at three other points upstream Seen from the air, Canton looked like a quiet city in good order, though three or four columns of smoke were oh: rising along the Pearl Rive: the dispatches further stated.—Domei.
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