CHINESE TROUBLE.
(Australian Press Association & Sun.)
PROGRESS OF FIGHTING. SHANGHAI. May 20
The Nationalist troops are strenuously resisting the Northern forces’ advance on Hankow! The latter are reorganising for a final thrust. There are Northern allies advancing on AVuchang from the south. These will sandwich Hankow in hy a doublesided attack.
Gains in Northern Kiangsu are reported. including the capture of Shantung and several battalions of Shantungese.
The Northern Fleet has returned to T.singtsno temporarily, removing the possibility of a naval battle here. . Five hundred additional United States marines, with tanks and artillery, have arrived here from the Philippics.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1927, Page 2
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99CHINESE TROUBLE. Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1927, Page 2
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