Residents -of Nanning Experience Thrills from Assaults by Yunnanese Troops The "Hongkong Telegraph" bas} the north and east gates, where the received from -a correspondent at main attack was to be staged. Nenning a detailed eccouet of the At 9 am, for half an hour, ~on recent siege of that city by Yunnan-the Sth: instant, the 3-inch guns fee troops and aerial "raids by the wall-shelled the village of Ting! Cantonese planes. For days, there} Tsz Hui.and registered most of] wore almost continuous attacks, and their targets. The Yunnanese during these, four shells exploded troops could be seen scattering into the British hospital, In spite of the folds.
Hehe Red Cross and' Union Jack At.130 on the same day, the being flown. "Much damage Yunnanese crossed the river below done to the..building.as a con-'Ting Tsz Hui and, creeping up the! sequence. The: story.as.told by our) Bund, were able to enter the south correspondent is as follows: suburbs of Nanning outside the On the ud instant, an American defences without being seen. They Jail "boat attempted "to. go. dowa were able to launch an attack on the south gate that night at 10.30, stream,.and was fired upon by the Yunnanese from the village of Ting after a brisk fusilde, but they {failed to make their. objective and Tou: Biul,-about a alle down river [ising forced. to. return to. her reteested, being heavily shelled the S-inch guns on the wall. moorings. "The following day was These shrapnel shells caused a fairly quiet. A- number of Kuangsi great many casualties, and four soldiers came over the east wall by exploded in the British hospital {o-feet ladders and brought up rice, vegetables, ete. The city is report-in spite of flying the Red Cross Union Jack. There was only one! Jed to be ina bad state as regards serious casualty, but great damage!
tation; dead bodies are heaved! was done to the building, the top ito No Man's Land over the wall. storey being riddled and one ward On the Oth and "th, there was] made uninhabitable. Heavy rain desultory firing on both sides, there did not help matters, as the roof being number of casualties among {failed to function as such in various the market people. At 9.30 pin. on places. the latter day, a heavy fusillade The 9th and 10th of August were commenced towards the river.. Six tolerably quiet, both sides hastily Junks had crept up the oppo-making preparations for offensive site bank, the farthest up being! and defensive measures. At 10.30] about opposite the south wall. They am. on the 10th, a Cantonese plane were heavily fired at by the defend-and dropped ers with machine-guns and 3-inch {Uiree bombs, all of which apparent field-guns of which they have five found. targets. The explosions mounted on the wail. It was} were particularly loud. On Sunday, moonlight and the attack failed, but} there was continuous rifle-firing all ft was believed to have been night, "blind" to distract attention from On the 11th, at 4 a.m, there was heavy attack by massed Yunnan-attend a mass meeting to celebrate fee troops (Lung's forces) and the south gate was again assailed, the victory of the Government troops over the northern rebels. Advantage The S-inch guns on the wall again shelled the retreating troops and was also taken of the occasion to commemorate the fine efforts on the the Hospital and numbers of private part of the people and the Govern Houses were hit with explosive ment with resulted in the "complete shrapnel. suppression" of the Communists, Forty-nine civilian casualties, all 'The meeting was held under the wounded by shrapnel, were treated auspices of the Shanghai District Detween 7am. and 930 amy al Kuomintang and its People's Train-number of women and children' being Committee and it began shortly' ing included. Two died and a third before ten o'clock. succumbed Inter. Casualties con-'Though all factories were ordered tinued coming {a all day to the Emmanuel Hospital. Tt was found to suspend operations for the day 0 that worke id find time to somewhat dificult to house them all attend, and to pay full wages for fand dressings were running she the extra holiday, the number of At 430 p.m, on the same day, the labourers present was very small] first batch of Yannanese wounded indeed and few showed much interest. came in, but these were not very serious cases.
Special precautions were taken to]
counter-revolutionary dis-~ On August 12 at 3.30 am. the Yunnanese launched another and inces by members of the Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety Digger attack on the south wall and id the Merchant Volunteer Corps failed after losing severely. At 8 and by soldiers of the Fifth Division farm., three Cantonese aeroplanes under the Shanghai and Woosung red and dropped bombs on the Gendarmerie Commissione: ity for an hour, Fifteen were] counted, and probably a larger num-'Three special platforms had been ber than that fell, Finally, a erected at the south end of the Recreation Ground and on the walls' fast plane, flying very low, dropped three bombs together on the south and every other conceivable spot wall, about 200 yards from the Em-were posted multi-coloured slogans of an anti-Communist and anti-manuel Hospital. The wall still remained intact, however. militarist nature.
The Yunnanese have a small Gon, Hsiung Hsi-hui, the local field-gun in position about fifty to Gendarmerie Commissioner, Mr. sixty yards up the road between the Kung-chien, Commissioner of Social] Emmanuel Hospital and the city Affairs for Greater Shanghai, Mr. wall. Their intention is to breach'
K. Yui, chief secretary to the the wall with it
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