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Tt can now be clearly and authenically stated that the Southerners ere right up to the walls of Wuchang. By this time the city is, in all" probability, surrounded. A note came through early this after. noon from the Rev. B. B, Chapman, principal of the Central. China 'Teachers' College, stating that Hunan. officers and men, allied. to the [Cantonese troops, have occupied that institution. If this ty so, then it is leertain that Wesley College, which stands next door and where there rear present four foreigners, is Also in the hands of the Southerner These two institutions are about a mile east of the city and the Ta Tung Men, which is more than half way along' the eastern wall. Heavy fighting is taking place between the city and the Hong Shan, more poularly known as Pagoda Hill.
Chinese continue to. pour into the concessions, The Bund is a sight—thousands walking to and fro, Wuchang Besieged Sept. 3.
Firing east and south of Wuchang increased in volume as evening drew on yesterday but gradually subsided, until, at about 11 pan, all was apparently quiet. Between 2.30 am, and 3 oan. heavy, firing again broke out, mainly to the cast of the city and continued til about 7 a.m. The Southerners are shelling Wachang with shrapnel from the neighbourhood of the Hong Shan, to which the Northerners inside the city are replying with guns mounted on the wall, One of Wu Peisf's gunboats is standing in the river just north west of the city and has been dropping shrapnel and high explosive shells over the city on to the Hong Shan, There was a considerable Amount of rifle and machine gun fire in the suburbs, under the northern wall, in' the vicinity of No, 1 Cotton Mill. Thus, it would appear that. the Southe ners have surrounded the city except the western side which faces the river, It ig still possible for those Inside the city to telephone to Hankow, although it is impossible for Uaalow to ring up. Wochang, Bishop Gilman at the Central China Dairersity on the Boone Campacy got through ti morning and Feported that as far as. they themselves were concerned, all was quiet. The Northerners have mount. ed a large number of guns on the east and south walls and the noise of the firing was deafening. Dr. Bliss of the A.M.C, Hospital in the city also telephoned across His hospital is full of soldiers but they are all cholera patients and no wounded. The hospital apparently i in for its share of stray
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