CHIANG’S FORCES RETIRE BEFORE NORTH ATTACK.
ANTI-NATIONALISTS MAY NOW TAKE HANKOW. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright A.P.A. and Sydney •'Sun" Cables. (Received May 7, 11.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 6. Heavy fighting on both sides of the tang tre 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—two divisions—of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists in the region of Nanking, w’ho have been holding out for two days against numerically superior odds. Finally they were forced to retire before a desperate Shantung assault. The Nationalists thus lost the capital of Anwhei Province, and also other cities on the direct line to Hankow. Hankow s position is now precarious, and it should fall to the Northerners within a fortnight, as once Chiang Kaishek’s forces are eradicated little opposition wall be encountered from the Hankow Communists. Chiang Kai-shek slightly countered the Anwhei reverse by driving across to Yang-chow, the fair of which is reported, but not confirmed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18149, 7 May 1927, Page 1
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