Peking, Sept..7.
Serious fighting is reported to be proceeding west of Pengpu—Reuter, the north bank, after a day or two of having been billeted in the Concession after their reverses. Friday's report stated, also, that normal railway traffic was expected to have been restored that evening.
An official communique, relative to reports which have appeared within the last few days, that, on August 25 a British gunboat open-fed fire in the direction of "the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Station at Nanking, has now been given out.
states offeially that in no cases have British men-of-war directed their fire on Lion Hill or Nanking City and that, furthermore, British ships have strict orders not to fire unless first fired on.
At Nanking Southern victories fro confirmed and 1,000. prisoners were brought in on September 1. Reinforcements from Hankow are reliably stated to be about to tack the lines of communication through Anhui Communist agents in Hankow, according to Saturday's information, have sent a telegram to London with view to arranging for demon strations there urging the immediate
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