Failure to Capture City After Heavy Bombardment: Skirmishes on Kin-Han Rly.
Hankow, Sept. 14.
At midnight last night the] Southerners launched a most deter-but again they failed to capture the ity, though a terrific bombardment was''kept up for about two hours. and died down at 2 a.m, The Wuchang Chamber of Com. merce has petitioned the Hankow, Chamber to appeal to the contending generals to come to some arrangement by which the people shall be allowed to leave the tity. They state that numerous non-combat ants have been killed since the beginning of the siege, while an acute shortage of food is causing considerable distress, The Southern Headquarters have instituted a very strict censorship on the (Chinese newspapers at Hankow. A warning has been issued to all editors that their copy must} first be presented to the censors for approval and anyone violating this order will be dealt with very severely.
The editor of the "Ta Han Pao" has-been arrested for publishing news detrimental to the Southern Southerners on Kin-Han R'way Sept. 11. The Southerners have reached Hengtien on the Peking-Hankow'
me, having captured 800 carriages! apd several locomotives en route. There have been several skirmishes with the. retreating Northerners, generally "to the Southern a vantage.
Tt is reported from up the ti that the Chinese everywhere a delighted to see the Southerners, freely offering them food and refreshments and willingly volunteer ting og guides to aid them in their pursuit of the straggling "Allies."
The behaviour of the Southerners} as a whole contrasts most, favourably with that of their predecessors and one hears nothing but good reports of them from all sid Reuter.
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