An incessant but not very heavy' fire throughout the night indicated that Wuchang was again being! attacked. By some mysterious process mail from Wuchang was livered here this morning and gave testimony that while shells had done no little damage: in the vicinity of foreign residences, none of the' Tatter has yet been struck nor has any foreigner been, wounded. The garrison still baa. an abundance of 1y food and ammunition, still believes in Wu Pei-fu's return and_ the! ultimate discomfiture of the Reds, and 4s in close wireless touch with the North.. According to all testi-many the moral and discipline of the besieged is improving, there is no misbehaviour and the fussy' efforts of the Wuchang and Hankow \Chambers of Commerce to negotiate eynicisnn ammunition saving]
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It is very reliably reported this afternoon that the Ta Han Men on the river front was open for some hours and that great rice were smuggled into the Northern partisans are, of cou much inclined to believe that this! indicates a Cantonese withdrawal. forced by-Sun Chuan-fang's movement against Pingkiang, local Cantonese girdes it is believed to presage a general attack on Wuchang to-night so decisive ta character that the smuggling in of supplies has no bearing upon the situation.
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