Hankow, Aug. 5.
Fighting is reported between Shihsho and Kungan in the prox-unity of the Tungting Lake.
The Hunanese are said to be advancing.
No alarm is felt here.—Reuter.
Peking, Aug. 4.
Foreign }) telegrams from the Yangtze Valley indicate chat the situation centring in the struggle between Hupeh and Hunan is daily becoming more complicated and more acute. Most of General Wang's troops have gone to the front, leaving only a small force at Wuchang, and popular discontent with the rule of ''uchun Wang is spreading and becoming more manifest. In the recent fighting near Yochow, after gaining initial successes, the Hupeh forces suffer-surrender of a Northern General ed reverse which led to the
and 2,000 men to the Hunanese.
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