The only indication in Japan's strictly censored press that the Japanese Army was not faring well in China during the last two monthsthat it has even suffered defeats at the hands of the Chinesehas been an absence of victory announcements. Last week a badly needed Japanese victory was supplied when twelve Japanese warships, 20 warplanes and a landing party of 1,000 sailors and marines planted the Rising Sun flag on the important, poorly defended island of Amoy, in South China. While the capture of Amoy might mean that the Japanese were preparing...
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