Just below Kading on a line cast is the 21st regiment of the 6th Division, Next to these, on a line' extending east almost to Mala (Maru on some north against Ka Honan Mixed. Brigad the line turns. almost to the town (not station) of Nanaiang. On this line is a Hupeh Mixed Brigade from Wuhu. From Nanziang the line runs southwest again and runs to a crossing of the: Huangtu creek, about a mile north of the railway, where the Kiangsu troops, in an earlier attempt at an' enciteling movement, crossed the! stream in boats, smashed the Ché- Kiang defences,' and pushed their! enemy to the southeast. From. northeast to southwest, the first sector of this Tine is held by Ch'en yuan and his Sth Mixed fade, who are relied upon to out-Tivangtu and win the The second sector is held by the 1st Shansi Mixed Brigade and the third! by the 3rd Honan Mixed Brigade. This brings us to the Huangtu creek: crossing. West of the creek begins. the line of the Sth, Divison, under General Kung who has been mal Such fatal frontal attacks on the Huangtu main positions for weeks past. His line runs almost due south along ithe west bank of Huangtu creek to the point where it joins a little stream, running east! and west, just south of Huangtu town, known as the Woosung: Kiang. From this point, beyond which there! seems to have been no very serious, fighting, although the lines are only' 50 yards apart and spend their: time exchanging bandinage, the line runs southeast—to what' point the writer failed to learn—and is held by the 3rd Kiangsu Mixed Brigade and the two Hupeh regiments which were recently brought down from Chungking in two of Wal Pei-fu's transports.
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