Tokyo, Jan. 31.
Imposing martial law over the Liuchow peninsula in Kwangtung, the chinese South China command has ordered the destruction of the highway from Yanchow on the Gulf of Tongking to Watlam and Wuchow in Kwangsi so as to prevent a possible excursion into that territory: by Japanese mechanized forces, the Hongkong correspondent of the Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi" chain of newspapers reported today.
Similar orders have been issued on Hainan Island by Wang Po, garrison commander there, he added.—Domei.
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