Incidentally, while all the farmhouses and cottages in this area are deserted, and have been occupied by troops and used as bil temporary hospitals, it is ni that no property has been molested and that houses remain as they wore left by their late occupants, with no niore harm than a certain amount of inevitable disorder.
In view of the progress made on the right of the line, there was some ground for the report that a strong movement on the left of the Kiangsu forces between Kading and Liuho was to be made last night. Te was said that General Yang Ho-tsou was taking 1,500 troops for a rapid forward movement at certain point in the line, with the object of taking the enemy in the rear. The most favourable point for such a movement would be Liutuchiao, and any success gained would pr '@ retirement upon Quinsan.
Liuho' is the point of most importance, and any pronounced success by either side on that section should be decisive, It is improbable that there will be any serious attempt to advance in the centre. The Henli river constitutes a for midable barrier to the approach on Quinsan, and the bridge at Henli, still undamaged, is covered by two or three heavy guns on the Quinsan hill, while searchlights play upon it at night.
Some "600 well equipped troops wont unto the front line from Nanziang at dusk, while earlier in the dey a similar force of troops from Sungkiang went by motor bus from Shanghai to strengthen the line at Liuho.
Another front line report listened to with some respect by those
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