WARFARE IN CHINA
NORTHERNERS ADVANCE ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP FORTS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright SHANGHAI, Tuesday. An attempt to blow up the forts at Woosung, at the entrance to the Yangtse River, near Shanghai, was frustrated. Nationalist soldiers belonging to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek’s army seized 3,200 cases of dynamite on board a Small Chinese steamer which was anchored off Woosung. Eight members of the crew of the vessel were arrested. Reports have been received of the capture of Peng-pu by the Northerners. The latter are now pressing on toward Pukow, which is the Yangtse terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow railway, the connecting link between "he Nanking-Shanghai railway. The Nationalists are removing all their munitions and military supplies from Pukow to Nanking. There is increasing restlessness at Nanking in. civil and military circles at the approach of the Northerners Thousands of wounded soldiers have returned to Pukow from the front. They testify to the heavy nature of the fighting which is in progress.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 1
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