Single copies 40 cents Shanghai delivery per annum $18 China, Korea and Japan Hongkong and Macao Postal Union Countries give the Japanese approximately a fortnight longer in which to achieve their objective, it is to be doubted whether they will -be able to do so by that date, so long as the Chinese continue to offer the resistance they have hitherto been doing. The question of the Chinese resistance, however, is the main imponderable in endeavouring to estimate how long they can hold Hankow. Points, the holding of which seemed to be imperative, as for example Mahweiling, have been held by poorly conditioned, unseasoned troops, while others of less importance have been held in a strength wholly incommensurate with any real role they could play in maintaining the general position, and while in the main the Chinese seem to have done remarkably well, Reservations for passenger accommodation may be made at the Nozru-Cua Dany News & Hero Lr.
(Incorporated in Hongkong) and to have put the Japanese to a great amount of trouble, the impression still remains that under better command a finer
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