Wuchow, Si, Nov. 2 petent observers. believed that japanese "The range which enters the province from French Indo-China Yunnan stretches eastward alone the border of the two Kwangs and forms the water shed between the West river and the Gulf of Tonkin, Two. large mountains, the Phoenix and the Shihwanta lay in the path= Way of the troops and it was considered thatthe advancing. forces would find travel very. diMieult.
Moreover it was expected that the Nippon detachments would meet stubborn opposition from the Chinese warriors who were massed at various points along the way, and that it would take weeks of hilter warfare before their object could bbe attained. However, contrary expectations inning days after the Japanese troops had landed. their forces on the coast of, Kwangtung, their vanguard was pounding at the doors of Nanning,
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