CHAOS IN CHINA
POSITION UNCERTAIN AT HANKOW NORTHERNERS MAKING BID FOR SHANGHAI. Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. SHANGHAI, November 13. (Received November 14, at 1.5 a.m.). Japanese reports state that Jdio Wuhan forces surrendered to tho Nanking forces without fighting. British reports say that the Nankmgites have not yet entered Hankow owing to tho rumor that a section of the Hankowites are determined to resist the enemy, though the eventual annexation of Hankow by the Nanking Government is certain. _ . A. large fire is raging in the .Hankow native city. The defending troops are in disorder, looting shops and homes, not sparing tho military headquarters. General Tang Seng-chi, the leader of the Hankowites, has vanished. The fall of Hankow to Nanking will virtually place all the territory south of the Yangtse Valley under one . Government. In the meantime the Northern General Sim Chuan-fang is advancing southwards with the intention of again bidding for the possession of Shanghai.
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Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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156CHAOS IN CHINA Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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