MUCH FIGHTING
DESPERATE, BUT INEFFECTIVE , POWDER WASTED ROUND NANKINS GERMAN FIRM'S OFFER. (By Telegraph.— Preß9 Association.— Copyright.) (Received August 21, 8.5 a.m.) PEKIN, 20th August. Desperate, though unscientific, fighting, consisting of ceaseless rifle fire by the Government troops in th« nope that the rebel defenders will exhaust their ammunition, and yield, continues around Nanking. There aTe unconfirmed reports that the northerners have captured the city. A German firm at CarloWitz, through it<s Hongkong manager, who is a director of the Hongkong-Shanghai Bank, has offered the Governor of Yunnan three millions sterling to construct a railway from Yunnan-fu (a great commercial centre) eastward to the West River. The Carlowitz firm, who represent Krupps, aleo receive a twenty-years' monopoly of Government contracts for arms and ammunition and mining and other machinery. SUN VAT SEN. WILL GO TO CANADA; THEN TO ENGLAND. (Received August 21, 9 a.m.) I TOKIO, 20th August. It ifl stated that Dr. Sun Vat Sen, the Chinese leader, who is at present in Japan, will shortly proceed to Canada, and thence to England. <^*'*'"**" M '*'^"'''^
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1913, Page 7
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175MUCH FIGHTING Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1913, Page 7
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