Tokyo, Oct. 23.
Japanese army units, assisted by naval forces, effected a landing at the mouth of the Pearl River, routed Chinese forces on Takoutou Island on Saturday evening, and pushed inland toward the Bocca Tigris forts, the Army and Navy Sections of Imperial General Headquarters announced in a joint communique issued here at 340 o'clock this afternoon.
Japanese warships and naval aircraft, the communique stated, battered Chinese positions in the vicinity of the Bocca Tigris forts.—Domei.
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