CHINA’S WAR.
ADVANCE ON HANKOW. NATIONALISTS SUFFER REVERSE (United Service.) Received April 2, 10.50 a.m. SHANGHAI, April 1. The Nationalist column moving on Hankow suffered a reverse at Lotien, where tlio Wuhan troops are heavily entrenched in the mountain passes. Cliiang-Kai-shek, however, who is always accompanied by German military advisers, confidently expects to bring about the collapse of Wuhan this week.' Rear-Admiral Twcedie, -who is in charge of the Yangtse patrol, lias asked for additional men from the warship Cumberland for the purpose of defending British lives and property in the former concession in Hankow,:
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 7
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95CHINA’S WAR. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 7
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