Railway South of Wuchang, Oct. 30.
lACING increasing pressure from Japanese pursuit columns striking north and south along the Canton-Hankow Railway, masses of disorganized Chinese troops falling back from the Wuhan cities today were trying desperately to slip through the lines being tightened around their avenues of retreat, according to field reports reaching Domei correspondents at Hoshengchiao.
Harried by almost continuous shell fire from Japanese batteries which found the range of the retreat route soon after the evacuation of Hankow began, the Chinese have had no time thus far to reorganize their forces for a major engagement in this area.
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