The Archive · 1927

More Secure Feeling at Hankow

A report from Hankow yesterday! states that wounded soldiers are! continuing to pour into the city! from the Honan front, large num. ders having arrived on' Monday and 'A certain amount of]

Jcaptured war material also, when the Inst batch of wounded arrived. The situation thre is described as quiet otherwise, and local officials all left Hankow on Monday, to go to a conference at Chengchow.

diepateh from Kiukiang describes. the local military as all] turning over to Chiang ok as rapidly as they can, Troops beloneing to Chiang's Ist army have now reached Poyang Lake and with their approach various Labour Unions in Kiukiang were suppress. ed. remnant of the 6th Army: and ins are reported leaving the port for the north bank of the river going up.

'A Chinese soldier at Wuhu fired shot at H. M. S. Caradoe while doing drill but failed to hit thy ship. As a result he was kept or his knees for half an hour and beaten by an officer in charge, but cannot be established whether this punishment was for bad shoot or not. has been paid by the laval Officer to the and the main in the Chinese quarter in ang. His report showed that the populace were anything but, hostile. There remain in Chinkiang. about 2,000 troops of the Ist Army to relieve the 6th Army.

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