(Continued from page 5) still blocked - Boulevard des Deux Republiques to suffocation outside the gate. These pitiful people were making the best of a cold night, sleeping where they were in the street, awaiting the opening of the gate at 5 am. to-day.
The situation had not clarified sufi-cently last night for detailed information of new positions to become available. It was believed, however, that the Chinese were at Tsepoo, a village slightly east of Tsingpu, from where their lines stretched northward to the Nanziang-Liuho defences, and south-eastward to the Sungkiang line.
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