Canton, June 12.
Loaded on junks: towed and protected by gunboats, 3,000 cantonese troops crossed the river from Honam near Wiampoa and landed at Tungpo, three miles east of Tungshan, last night at 11 o'clock.
Fighting is expected as these forces approach Tungshan, Strategic points on Shameen are covered by sandbag barricades as a precautionary measure but trouble is not expected. Later, Fighting began to the east of tungshan before daylight and i now in progress in the eastern suburbs between the city and 'Tungshan, Foreigners leaving Tungshan' at 10.80 this morning observed many Yunnanese retreating with numbers of wounded on stretchers, The Shameen volunteers are patrolling the island and marines from British and French gunboats guard the entrances.
Firing is active on the Bund and to the west of Shameen.
Later.
The Cantonese have advanced into the city. Fighting is now going on near Kuangtung University, midway between Tungshan and Shameen, June 13.
The war finished yesterday afternoon at three o'clock. The Cantonese, under protection of gunboats, crossed the river from both ends of Honam using all manner of small craft.
Troops from the cast had dri en the Yunnanese from Tungshan three-fourths of the way to Shameen.—When additional troops crossed under bombardment of gunboats all Yunnanese hoisted a white flag and fled towards the north-west, Cantonese by the thousand were pouring across the river in pursuit, Fighting in the eastern part of, the city. was severe. The casualties number several hundred.
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