Believed Attempt to Stop Reinforcements for North Hongkong, June 28.
"After a preliminary bombardment from seven Japanese warships, 2,000 Japanese marines landed on Friday at Yiuping, near Chaochowfu, on the Kwangtung-Fukien Border," states the Canton correspondent of the "South China Morning Post."
Chinese officials, he adds, do not believe that the Japanese intend to begin a serious thrust towards Canton, and state that the landing was staged to "prevei further depar-fures of Chinese troops for the
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