Peking, Oct. 5.
Wuchang is holding out, ace cording to telegrams from Hankow: tegeived yesterday evening, which mention that heavy fighting is proceeding 35 miles from Hankow and that the Southerners are making a determined bid to recapture Nanchang.
Other telegrams Marshal Sun Chuan-fang. some progress in his a Hankow and his forces are report-to have already reached Huang. hsiang.
There is a dearth of news from the Nanchang front but telegrams from the South state that a severe battle has been going on there for three days and nights, but the result is not yet known. These re rts credit' Marshal! Sun Chuan fang with the intention of launch. ing eight divisions against the Cantonese, in a counter-attack, with. in the next few days.—Reuter, Peace Negotiations Kiukiang, Oct. 4.
Tt is reported thet to restore Peace in Hupeh, negotiations between Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and Genera! "Tang Song-chi are now being conducted at-Hankow through the good offices of leading Chinese merchants in the Wu-Han district as well as from Kiangsu and Ché- Kiang Proxinces.
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