DESPERATE FIGHTING.
CHINESE AND COMMUNISTS. PEKIN, August 30. Further desperate lighting has occurred between the advanced troops of the famous Nineteenth Route Army and the Communists in the isolated mountainous province of Fukien. The British warship Wishart is proceeding to Foochow. American and Japanese warships have also been ordered there to protect nationals. The Communists have captured Yenping, or the City of Eternal Peace, which has a population of 200,000. All foreigners have left the city safely in junks, and .have passed down the sinuous Min-kwang (Snake) River.
The Communists are believed to be the same marauders who beheaded the two British missionaries, Misses Nettleton and Harrison, three years after cutting off their fingers, in order to hasten the ransom payment. Government forces are massing in Kien-ning, the centre of the tea country, in readiness for a general attack on Yen-ping
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 285, 13 September 1933, Page 8
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