Meanwhile, reports reaching here from the South China front indicate that the steady push of the Japanese troops up the West River has caused extreme confusion and fear in Wuchow, the important Chinese stronghold in Kwangsi province, All civilians, according to reports reaching here, have evacuated Wuchow which is now filled with Kwangsi troops and militiamen.
Strong defence works, the reports added, are being constructed between Samshui, at the junction of the West and North rivers, and Wuchow. The West river, it was reported, has been blocked at several points.—Domei.
Peiping, Nov. 5.
Gener:
1 Doihara, chief Japanese political officer in North China, has returned here from Tokyo.
It is reported in Chinese circles close to the Japanese authorities that plan which General Doihara had drawn up for the formation of a Federal Government in China, with the capital at Peiping, had been approved by Tokyo on October 17.—Reuter. already had been captured; consequently part of the Chinese troops there retreated to Paikao, south of Macheng at the southern base of the range, while the bulk of them moved westward to the Peiping-Hankow lway.
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