A reader tells us that, when bicycling round Lunghua an even ing or two ago, he met three whippet tanks, apparently on the way to be shipped off to some Known destination. He says. th were making very good peed along the road.
Washington, Aug, 29.
The Quinsan front leads directly to Shanghi ing the Kiangsu troops a position from which they can ce-operate with the combined Foochow and Nanking navies in the attack on Woosung and Lunghua, The purpose of the Taihu front is to divert troops from the direct attack on Shanghai to a defence of Soochow and Wusih and to finesse General. Chi The Cabinet deliberated to-day on the growing gravity of the situation in China.—Reuter's American Service.
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