The report: was published in Shanghai on Thursday that. looting has taken place at Changsha. Up to the present no confirmation of this has been obtained, none of the usually well-informed sources of information here having been apprise ed of any such occurrence. It was believed, as a matter of fact, that all soldiers had been withdrawn from Changsha, and the only mention of troops in that quarter comes in a message that they had been passing through on their way to the Hupeh front.
Meantime news comes from Hankow that one of Wu Pei-fu's_ brigades has arrived in the vicinity, and that fighting is likely to start about the beginning of August. The Hunan forces are at the same time said to be retiring.
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