Hongkong, Oct. 11.
The East Surrey Regiment, which was originally sent to Shanghai from England to replace the Durhams, arrives this afternoon and will be temporarily housed in a camp in Happy Valley, military authorities &nnounced today.
The Regiment arrived in Singapore at the time of the recent naval and aailitary manoeuvres in, Hongkong and disembarked at the Straits port. ~United Press. vation indicated that the entire Eastern Kwangtung area now threatened by the Japanese was virtually devoid of troops.
At Poklo, pivotal point on the Canton-Swatow Highway 100 kilometres west of Canton, which forms the immediate objective of the Japanese forces striking westward from Waichow, no Chinese troops could be sighted, aerial scouts reported. The area eaSt of Poklo was also vacant, they said.
Chinese concentrations, however, were said to have been sighted at ingshanhu:, a point on the highway about 20 kilometres west of Waichow, and at Lunghwahuj, 12 kilometres west of Pinghu on the Canton-Kowloon Railway. The latter, a small force, was described as being on the move in the direction of the Japanese advance.
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