By October the 24th, headquarters had passed from Huayuan to Hsiaokan, only 45 miles from Hankow, and in a telegram dated from that place on October 25th it was announced by General Yin Ch'ang that the main body of the Imperialists had moved forward to Niehkow, some six or seven miles from Kilometre Ten, and that he himself was following.
1912, Percy Horace Kent, “The Struggle for Hankow”, in The Passing of the Manchus, Longmans, Green & Co., page 135