WAR IN CHINA
SEIGE OF WUCHANG.
EXPEDITION TO WANHSIEN.
RESISTANCE PROBABLE,
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. Received 11.10 a.m. to-day. PEKIN, Sept. 17. ' The Reds are reported to have clashed with General Wu Pei Fu’s and General Sun Chuan Fang’s troops with indefinite results, though a slight- Red advanee is reported. Yangsen, the perpetrator of the. Wanhsien outrage, is reported to have telegraphed to Pekin that he is prepared to resist the second British naval expedition to the last in self-defence. The situation generally is unchanged Wuchang continues to be beseiged and repeatedly' bombed by Red planes, scores of/inhabitants have been killed and the rest are starving, the food having been commandeered for the troops. Several fires have broken out in the city a,s a result of the shelling. Communications have been severed and peace negotiations have failed. Condiitons around Hankow are. nauseating. There are countless -corpses of Northerners floating in the river.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 September 1926, Page 5
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151WAR IN CHINA Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 September 1926, Page 5
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