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Mr. William Henry Allen, of Brom- ham House, near Bedford, died on September 3rd at the age of 59. gative of Cardiff," he began his business career as a manufacturing engineer at Lambeth, until in 1883 he moved to Bed-
YANKING, September 25th. "When you nex: write to Shanghaiford, where his firm have produced much of the pumping equipment in connection' about this situation," said one of with irrigation schemes in Egypt, and
Marshal Sun Chuan Fang's staff officers
in parting yesterday, "please be cheer-equipped the dockyards of the Japanese ful about it. Tell the people that we Admiralty, as well as other large under- cannot possibly lese, that with Chiang takings in the Far East.
Mr. Allen was twice married. and is Chich Shih (Kai Shek) being pushed back into Hunan we have broken the Red survived by a widow, who was a daughter, advance, and that the conclusion of this of Mr. W. F. Fedden, of Bristol- His campaign is coming quickly and surely, drst wife was daughter of the late Mr. It would surprise none of us if the Cantonese were in full retres; before letter could reach Shanghai."
T. Howell, Bryn Caeran Castle, Carmarthenshire. One of his daughters is wife of Dr. Saunders, of Hongkong. The funeral took place on September 7th, This sanguine statement was the con-
as Brompton Cemetery. Engineer Vice; clusion of an attempted interview with.
Admiral Sir Robert Dixon, R. N., repre- Marshal Sun Chuan Fang on the China sented the Admiralty, and representatives Merchants str. Kinghein at Kiukiang.
were present from the Institute of Civil It may sound over-confident, but it does
Engineers, Institute of Mechanical En- no more than confirm the general im-
gineers, and the Industrial Welfare pression that one gets coming down Society, and a deputation from the the river, after getting well away Queen's Engineering Works,, Bedford from pessimistic and poorly informed | Many tributes were sent from the Hankow. The first surprise that one different engineering works and the in- stitutions with which Mr. Allen was geta is the spectacle of the striped flag
associated. fying over Huangshihkang, the port for Taych, and of great numbers of steel helmetted northern soldiers on the fore shore. This is the lat Shantung Brigade, under a General Ma Tien Ying from the Kiangsu Shantung border-Chang Chung Chang's contribution to the campaign. Erom this point down to Wasueh one sees tented encampments of the north- ́erners at every little settlement sad then at Wasuch there is General Chen Tiao Yuan's big concentration.
A Business-Like Force.
In Kiukiang one finds the community in the grasp of a very well equipped and seemingly serious and business-like soldiery who inspire confidence at, a glance...
is badly defeated in this quarter, his whole, expedition is a wreck and the unarese and Cantonese north of Chang- sha will be helpless refugees in an ali land.
Contrary to reporta circulating in Hankow, General Sun's staff officers cheerfully admit that Nanchang did fall. to the Cantonese and that Pinghsiang is not now in northern Hands. The Can- tonese, led by Chiang Kai Shek himself, advanced into Kinngsi along the Chu chow-Pinghsiang railway and then split into two columns for their attack upon Nanchang, one going by way of Linkiang and the other by way of Juichowfu...
Teng Ju Cho was easily overwhelmed but escaped with some of his troops to- wards the south-east. Governor Lu The Commander-in-Chief of the allied Raining Ting was, however, coming to armies of Chekiang, Kiangsu, Anhui and the rescue from the north and, at the Klangsi is naturally an exceedingly busy right moment, Teng Ju Cho came back man at the moment, with the usual borde and co-operated with him in the oasting of callers and the usual stack of papers of the Cantonese. A movement was at and maps before him, and while there tempted to envelope the city, Teng pass- was no difficulty about reaching bis heading it on the cast in his northward move- quarters, ria military launch, and then munt, while Lu passed it on the west in his southward movement. They hoped reaching his presence, a protracted inter- view was out of the question; so the
to trap the entire southern force but, writer was rather abruptly turned over while they claim to have taken many to the senior staff officer, who undertook Prisoners, they admit that Chiang Kai with great good nature to explain what Shek and the majority of his following escaped and retreated westwards towards was going on.
Pinghsiang.
Cantonese Kept Moving.
The general plan of campaign is to drive westward from various points in Kiangai, in several columns, towards the
These events happened between, the 19th Hukuang railway and the Siang river and 24th gf this month, since when and thereby endanger the Red line of Governor Lu claims to have kept the communications and force their with Cantonese moving and to have pushed drawal from Hupeh and northern Hu them back into the Yuanchow district, nan. If carried out swiftly enough this
to a point within 100 of Finghaiang. withdrawal will of necessity be a rout, This, if true, has been more of a flight since the Cantonese and Hunanese 'Reds than a retreat and would warrant all the have gone so far afield over routes in optimism which General Sun's chief of which communications are had. If they staff puts into his message to Shangbai, have to run to get back before being cut Chiang Kai Shek's own Cantonese divi off it is assumed that there will be nosions are both the nucleus and the inspira great difficulty about keeping them run- ning well into southern Husad and over the Kwangtung border..
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tion of the whole Red expedition and if they cannot stand their ground before the Chekiang advance, the whole Red force is bound to break and run.
Governor Teng Ju Cho is once more officers; Fang Pen Jen is virtually a in Nanchang, according to the staff
Estimate of Rival Forces. There is much dispute among observers about the relative strength of the Allied and Bed forces. In Kiukiang foreigners give Sun Chuan Fang credit for 170,000 men. Junior officers whom the writer questioned and one staff officer all gare
A Secret Objective.. Apart from the Shantung Brigade at Huangshihkang and the outposts along the river, there is no force above Wauch and there is, as yet, no thought of agrisoner in Kianfu, which is held by a direct advance upon the Wu-Han cities Red sympathizer; Wu Pei Fu is in by the river route. Indeed the Brigade Chengchow, Henan, trying to reorganize a new striking force; and Chin Yan Ao at Huangshibkong seems to be no more than a precautionary force whose disposi-is supposed to be at Hsinyangchow, which accounts for, all the principals not tion is not yet determined. The most already mentioned. northernly force operating against the Cantonese line of communications is therefore that directed by General Cheh Tiso Yuan out of Wusuch. As has been reported, this column is said to have reached a point south of Tayeh Lake and, while the objective is naturally a secret, it is not denied that it is striking for the Wuchang-Changika railway at the same reply-ten-odd ten thousands," point somewhere above Yochow. For this expedition a strength of 30,000 Anhui troops is claimed, this is discount ed 30 per cent, here. It has, nevertheless been strong enough to force the with drawal from the Kin-Han Railway, and On the other side there are probably from the vicinity of Wuchang of a large 30,000 left of the original Cantonese, force that has gone inland and will be Hunanese and Kiangsi men who set out in a sorrowful plight if communications on the expedition. According to General are cut farther south in Hunan. The Sun's chief of staff, however, these have route of this column, as will be seen from been joined by scores of impecunions the map, passes 150 li south of Hankow. Hananese units who see an opportunity From Kiukiang route leads south to draw regular pay for a change. What west wards through Buichang (alias Jui-ever their numbers, they are not of great chang), through Waning, Ining and fighting value. Pingkiang to the railway at, or above, Changsha What force is moving along this line, which is said to be an excellent sa to the outcome of the struggle, for the highway, is still a secret, but the South writer is only attempting to give a erners have been talking for some time skeleton picture of the military situation in Hankow of its imminent arrival at that seems at all certain is that if Chiang and ita potentialities. The only thing Pingkiang, which is dangerously close to Kai Shek is being pushed back by Lt
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which is to say from 120,000 to 140,000, Here in Nanking it is estimated that a maximum of 60,000 men have gone up river. All the available troops in Kiangai would not bring the total up to 100,000.
"Of course, to prophecies are'ventured.
Hsiang Ting, the Red conquerors will have to abandon Hupeh and either bolt The big fight, however, in the zight for home or make a stund somewhere in of both parties, is that being waged be the vicinity of Chuchow. If reinforca.. tween Nanchang and Pinghuisng, with ments got back to Chuchow in orderly Chiang Kai Shek and his two best Can fashion, it is always possible that Chiang tonese divisions, including the Whampoa Kai Shek might make another dash for cadeta, on the one hand, and Governor Nanchang and attempt to come up Lu Hsiang Ting, with five brigades of through Kisngsi. The odds are, however, Cheriang troops and several brigades of that if Chiang and his two crack Kiangai troops on the other. If Chiang divisions are beaten, the expedition will (Continued on next Colums.) collapse in rains-N.-C. 'Daily News.
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