Chungking, Feb. 15. ENERAL Wang, Garrison Commander of Hainan Island, has been instructed by General Chiang Kai-shek's South-West Seadquarters to put up a determined resistance against the Japan-se occupation of the Island. The Japanese landing on Ya Bay, west of Yulin Bay, yesterday, was confirmed by military authoriies here. Japanese aircraft subjected the north-eastern section of Hainan Island to heavy aerial bombing, and as a result, the entire city of Tingan, seven miles south of Chunchow, was said to be in flames, Japanese troops yesterday reached the outskirts of Tingan, from which city the "Chinese defenders had already withdrawn.—Reuter.
Tokyo, Feb. 15.
Yulin, at the southern extremity of Hainan Island, was occupied by a Japanese Landing Party on Tuesday at noon, according to a naval dispatch reaching here this morning from the Island. The dispatch says that the enemy offered some resistance, to check the Japanese advance, but the combined Japanese attack from the land and the air broke the Chinese resistance and dealt the Chinese troops a crushing blow. Not a single Chinese regular is now seen near Yulin, according to dispatch, which adds that the Japanese suffered one killed.
Yulin represents the best in Hainan Island, with outer and inner harbours to which a three thousand ton steamer is accessible, The inner harbour is Hainan Seizure to twenty kilometres long by five kilometres wide and at one time can accommodate over ten steamers of over 1,000 tons.—Reuter.
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