(JiMao April 19), June 6, 1939, the Japanese army captured Shantou.


Japanese invasion of Shantou In 1939, the Japanese stronghold ordered the capture of Shantou. At 2:00 on the 21st, the Japanese aircraft more than 20 aircraft, warships motorboat of more than 40 vessels, of about thousand people cover to 0 four divisions of article 137 brigades and regiments and Marine Corps, in Xinjin Hong Kong, Shantou coastal, floating state landfall near. The the fourth theater independent ninth Travel Tours and Chairman of Shantou garrison commander Huazhen only local team to resist the withdrawal of the line of defense, the brigade, the 22nd, the Japanese captured Shantou. The the
same day, (�Ө�d��y����h�� $ �Ө�ry.c��m) National Military Commission spokesman told reporters in Chongqing speech said: the enemy captured Shantou no longer value by military sense. The Japanese accounted for the main purpose of Shantou, the expulsion of Europe and the United States of forces for "infringing upon the rights of countries in the interests of the Pacific coast.