The Archive · 1930

Besieged City of Nanning

Hongkong, Sept. 8.

'A. report from the besieged ety of Nanning, the stronghold of the planes dropped several bombs: on diferent parts of the city during an serial attack recently.

The Kuangsi defenders refused to surrender and are still holding out against the combined Yunnan and Kuangtung forces, ity of food in defence commander ordered all the civilians to leave during a lull in the fighting and more than 40,000 persons, representing three-fourths of the entire population, have been successfully evacuate The few remaining foreigners ai living in Inunehes on the river pre~ paratory to leaving the area.—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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