Hahkow, May 20, The situation in Hankow grows more serious and~ more menacing daily. The armies threatening the city are drawing nearer. General Yang Sen has landed with troops from a Portuguese steamer within 50 miles of Hankow and is reported to be engaging.with com. munist troops from Wuchang. A large section of Hupeh Nationalist troops stationed at Hanyang has announced itself as anti-Red. lash with the communists may be expected. Large troop movements from Hankow to Wuchang indicate the seriousness with which the cor-munists view the. threat from Yang Sen and Chiang Kai-shek.
Two hundred wounded arrived at Wuchang yesterday from Chifong, where the communists are opposing General Hsiao Tao-yin.
Mawkins, with Admiral Sir mald Tyrwhitt. aboard, has lett hankow for Nanking and be expected in Shanghai in a day or two, when the Admiral is expected to confer with Sir Miles Lampson on the general Yangtze situation, Situation Reported Easier Hankow, May 21.
The "Government" claims that Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang has arrived fat Loyang and the Marshal Wa Po has retreated and is now a Chengchow. Marshal Feng's armies, it is) farther claimed, are now advancing on the-Lunghai Railway! towards {Chengchow.
'The Nationalist forces in' Honan Jare all under the command of Russian: oticers, while all, Marshal Wa's foreign military advisers are said to have left him—Reuter.
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