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HEAVY FIGHTING Situation Unfavourable to General Chiang Kai Shek APPREHENSION- AT HANKOW. [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] (A. & N.Z.) LONDON - , May 18. Messages from Shanghai state that heavy fighting continues in Honan. The Hankow Government’s forces and their S: Northern allies have I made no appreciable difference to the situation. Wealthy Chinese in Hankow are sheltering in the remaining foreign concessions, and are sending their families to Shanghai, lower down the stream, where General Chiang Kai Shek is engaged with a mixed force. A British wireless reports that the situation is not favouring General Chiang Kai Shek. Captain King, for the War Office, stated in the House of Commons that the British military forces now in Shanghai consist of 12 infantry battalions and one marine battalion, with auxiliary troops at Hongkong, including four battalions arrivng . There are seven infantry battalions.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 7
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