CHINA’S TIDE OF WAR TURNS
A NORTHERN DRIVE NANKING MAY FALL By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright SHANGHAI, Sunday. Sweeping successes for the Northern Chinese armies on all fronts are reported. The Nationalists’ casualties in recent fighting are estimated at 30,000 and those of the Northerners at 6,000. General Chang Tsung-chang, the Shantung war lord, as assisting General Sun Chung-fang, the erstwhile
over-lord of the five south-eastern provinces in his drive toward Pukow, the fall of which is expected at any moment.
Panic has seized the natives in Nanking, who are fleeing to Shanghai by railway and by all classes of river craft.
The refugees declare the recapture of Nanking by the Northerners is certain. They expect the city to be looted by the retreating Southerners. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has arrived in Shanghai and conferred with the Nationalist Minister of Finance regarding the situation.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 1
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