CIVIL WAR IN CHINA
STALEMATE ENDED HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED. Pi-cf« Association—By Telegraph— l Copyright. SHANGHAI. May 6. (Received May 7, at 11.25 a an.) Heavy fighting on both sides of the Yangtse apparently marks the end of the stalemate as far as Chinese military warfare is concerned The Northerners launched wave after wave of attack against a small force, consisting of two divisions of Chiang Kaishek’s Nationalists, in the region of Nanking, who have been holding out for two days against numerically superior odds. They were finally forced to retire before the desperate Shantung assault. The Nationalists thus lost the capital of tho Anwhei Province, also other cities on the direct line to Hankow. The latter’s position is now precarious. It should fall to the Northerners within a fortnight, as once Chiang Kai-shek’s forces are eradicated little opposition will be encountered from the Hankow Comrauinists.
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Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 6
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