Hankow, July 8.
As the fighting approaches closer and closer to Kiukiang, the populace has fled from the city, while barbed wire barricades and sandbags redoubts have been erected in the streets, according to foreign reports from Kiukiang.
The Chinese forces, it is considered are preparing to resist the panese at Kiukiang, in an attempt to prevent the Japanese from advance-Jong the south bank of the Yangtze in the direction of Tienchiacheng. about 35 miles west of Kiukiang, where the Yangtze flows between towering hills on both banks.
The Chinese defenders, these circles add, will also attempt to prevent the Japanese from advancing southwards along the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway towards Nanchang. the capital of Kiangsi province.—Reuter.
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