Show I RED CHINESE ARMY CLOSES ere PIT CITY GIT GATES Did Ull Oft I HO HALF HALF MILLION PEOPLE FACE DEATH BY STARVATION COLD AND GUNFIRE Dead Scattered Through Streets Bombardment Bom Born Promised for Sunday Cantonese are Waiting J Outside Patiently I J Penned up more than a month by tho tim red Cantonese armies besieging besieging be be- million half Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- the tho city a nese people face death by br starvation cold and gunfire in Large i numbers of or dead lie in ill the streets I Those remaining have haYe eaten dogs cats I and rats and are dropping in public places or dying miserably in shelters into which have haye crawled Tho Tine northen troops of or Marshal 1 Wu Vu Pei Fu garrisoning the city having haying been refused terms torms of surrender are holding on desperately hoping for armies of their ally any Sun Fang Chuang-Fang to break through the Cantonese co cor cor- don Meanwhile the relentless and well fed led Cantonese outside the walls rest patiently on oni on their arms having havin blockaded block block- all exits from Cram the city and await time when they shall enter What will happen then Is s not known The Tile Cantonese have haye notified the defenders defenders de de- defenders de- de fenders that next Sunday they will loose a general bombardment upon the city of miser misery lag firing from arsenal across the across the Yangtze river and pouring shells from Pagoda Hill an nina and elsewhere in the iron ring upon the SUf suffering ering I |