Canton, Mar, 5.
Striking swiftly and without warning, powerful units of the Japanese South China forces at dawn Monday effected landings at various strategic points on the southern Kwangtung coast from west of Macao to Pakhoi, on the Gulf of Tonking, a communique issued by the South China Japanese Expeditionary Forces this morning revealed.
Working in close cooperation, crack columns of Japanese troops swept through the slight Chungking opposition to reduce Kwonhoi, Yeunghong, Tinpak, Shuitung, the Luichow Promontory, and Pakhoi. the announcement said.
The surprise landing at Pakhoi was carried out by Japanese army units with the cooperation of the navy, and met no resistance from the Chungking Peace Preservation Corps, a force of sixty men, that Wed abandoning their arms.
A strategic promontory two kilometres west of Pakhoi was also promptly seized by the Japanese force which turned the defences into attacking fortifications.
Rapidly consolidating their newly-won positions, these Japanese detachments sweeping forward in close cooperation with other columns carrying out an offensive against the West River areas.
For the first time since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, military rule was established in the occupied area. All Chinese administrative and judicial establishments were taken over by the Japanese, while residents, regardless of their nationality, were required to register in the Japanese military administration headquarters.—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.