Mankow, July 2 With Matung in Japanese hands and the boom there penetrated, the Chinese are hastily erecting further defences in an effort to halt the Japanese advance on Kiukiang.
Besides closing the Yangtze all Hukow to traMe, the Chinese outhorities ure understood to be constructing ar boom at Hukow and another at Kiukiang. At the same time, heavy reinforcements are pouring, into the Hukow area.
Following the fall of Matung, the Japanese on the north bank.of the Yangtze captured Wankiang, opposite are now said to be Liangchuancheng north-west of Wankiang.
Both Pengtseh and Hukow, which are on the south bank below Kiu-Kdang, are being subjected to severe daily bombings.
Fighting is said to be going on at present at Liangliangmiao, east of Pengtseh.—Reuter, At Shanhaikwan Peiping, June 30.
An undisclosed number of roo} trains, carrying Japanese troops and artillery, arrived at Shanhaikuan from the Tientsin area yesterday and today.
This movement is causing much speculation, but is believed to be connected with the, movement of Euerillas from pointy north-west of Peiping towards Shanhaikuan with the avowed object of severing communications between Peiping and Shanhaikuan, situated at the north eastern end of the Great Wall, is twe fand a half miles from the coast and Reuter. fon the Peiping-Mukden Railway
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