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Show ID CHINESE A1Y CLOSEST GATES HALF MILLION PEOPLE FACE DEATH BY STARVATION; COLD AND GUNFIRE Dead Scattered Through Streets; Bom-ba.-dment Promised for Sunday; Cantonese are Waiting Patiently Outside Hankow Penned up more than a month by the red Cantonese armies besieging be-sieging the city, a half-million Chinese Chi-nese people face death by starvation, cold and gunfire in WhuclKing. Large numbers of dead lie in the streets. Those remaining have eaten dogs, cats and rats and are dropping in public places or dying miserably in shelters into which they have crawled. The northen troops of Marshal Wu Pei-Fu, garrisoning the city, having been refused terms of surrender, are holding on desperately, hoping fur armies of their ally, Sun Chuang-Fang, to break through the Cantonese cordon. cor-don. Meanwhile, the relentless and well fed 'Cantonese outside the walls rest patiently on their arms, having blockaded block-aded all exits from the city and await time when they shall enter. What will happen then is not known. The Cantonese have notified the defenders de-fenders that next Sunday they will loose a general bombardment upon the city of misery, firing from -Hanyang arsenal across the Yaugtze river and pouring shells from Pagoda Hill and elsewhere in the iron ring upon the suffering. |