Hankow, Nov. 10.
Foreign reports from ngsha intimate that steps have already been taken regarding the protection of foreign lives and property in the event of the hostilities reaching the Hunan capital.
The foreign commùnity, @hich a few weeks ago numbered 106, including 19 Britons, has already held a meeting and the situation there is reported to be well in hand.
The British river gunboat Sandpiper (185 tons) is now in Changsha.
Maps marking British property in Changsha and Ichang were shown to Colonel Hirota and Lieutenant-Colonel Nakayama this morning by the British Naval authorities, when the Japanese officers returned the call made yesterday by Rear-Admiral R. V, Holt, Commander of the British Yangtse Flotilla, on General Hata, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Central China—Reuter.
One column, the spokesman disclosed, drove on the Chinese positions from a point half way between Puchi and Tsungyang in a frontal attack, while another column detoured to the south of Tungcheng and attacked from the south.
The Japanese forces, the spokesman said, are driving after the retreating Chinese and are now approximately ten kilometres southwest of Tungcheng on the route to Pingkiang.
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