CIVIL WAR IN CHINA
WU'S DEFENCE AGAINST
SOUTHERN ARMT.
(United Press Association.—Copyrigllt.) (Router's Telegram.)
PEKIN, 30th August.
The Southerners have commenced a concentrated drive on the Allied left flank at Hsienning, which is 50 miles from Hankow. The fighting is fierce. Wu Pei-fu has arrived on the scene of action, directing the Allied defence. According to latest reports they are still holding Hsienning. Eight students convicted of blowing up a bridge ten miles from- Hankow, which seriously delayed the dispatch of Allied reinforcements to the front, were beheaded.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 9
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88CIVIL WAR IN CHINA Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 9
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