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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1927.
THE FIGHT FOR NANKING AND CHINKIANG.
"BOMBARDMENT BY PUKOW OF TROOPS AT
· HSIAKUAN.
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED BY LOCAL
CHINESE.
SILANGELI, August 19th.
The Southern Drive.
WITH THE NORTHERN ARMIES.
BANDITS EMPLOYED BY THE SOUTHERN “SAVIOURS.".
KAIPING COAL FOR ALL PURPOSES
INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL
HSU KUN.
HOME,
FACTORY
When our train pulled into Chich Ho, writes a North China Daily News correspondent, car host, the Brigadier, said that he would him- seli take our cards to his chief and try to arrange an interview as soon as possible. And he was as good as his word.
In the course of a conversation
PERING, August 19th. with a Toho representative, an General Chu Yu Pu and Sun officer of the N.K.K. a. Tatung Chusa Fang are now at Pengpu Maru, which arrived here from the Ther are firmly determined to cos upper reaches of the Yangtze, tinue their southward drive unless referring to the war situation near the Southerners voluntarily aban- General Ha Kun was originally Nanking just after the fall of don" Nanking, but Generalissimo commander of the 7th Shantung Pakow, stated as follows:-
Chang Tso Lin, considering it army and is also the front line It was at 11 o'clock on the necessary to discuss a fundamental commander-in-chief, under Tupan morning of the 17th that Pukow course of action towards the South of Chibi Cha Yu Pu, of all the fell in the hands of General Sun at this inom nt, has addressed tele- Chihlu armies engaged in the ple Chuan Fang's troopa When our grams to Generals Chang Tsung sent offensive. steamer was approaching Nasking Chang and Sun Chuan. Fang, re- The General was quite frank and
at about 1 o'clock the same after questing them to come up to the open with regard to the military noun, the Northern troope furiously capital immediately. It is reported situation and at some length gave Bred on Hakuan from the Pukow that Generals Chang and Sun have side with rifles and machine-guns, raplied to Marshal Chang that they while the Southerners were reply-will send their representatives to ing to the fire intermittently.
the proposed conference.-Toko,
**Our steamer was compelled to 'stop for about three hours owing to the firing. Then keeping close to Nanking side she passed there under the escort of the Japanese destruyer Hinaki. She was furi ously fired at from the Fukow side, but no damage was done to the ship,
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us all the information we could have hoped for, and rather more than we had expected. The whole scheme of the offensive he said anoraced the Fengtien" forces on Refugees In Shanghai.
the right who were responsible for Reports received in Shanghai yesionan with the Kinbun railway na terday were to the effect that as a centre, while Sun Chuan Fang on rar as could be ascertained the the exet would advance into Kiang- bu, and the Chifu forces between Northerners had not crossed the them with the Tanpa railway as a Yangtze to Nanking, although, as Anhue
centre of advance, would penetrate Ito far as opposition is concerned theze is no reason why they should not occupy the former capital immedi-the-Tupan said that the centre As to the Chihlu plan of attack Residents On Board Hulk
ately. They are at moment con would consist of the 5th, 6th and All the Japanese residents at solidating their positions on the ing on the right and left at the 7th armies, the 6th and 7th advano- Nanking, including Mr. Tajima,Tientsin-Fukow line. Transport of railway respectively while the ath Acting Consul, bad already taken troops across the Yangtaze is at the would be a tekerve force on the refuge on board the Minoti, and present time practically impossible and the KKK hulk at Nanking on account of the lack of craft, all was being removed to a safe point, available water transport having towed by a Japanese "man-of-war. been utilized by the Nationalist
Southern Rush to thinkiang.
armies,
3.
Mr. Hiyoshi, District Inspector of Yangchow is in the hands of Suc. the Salt Laspector's Office at Chin-Chaan. Fang's troops and the inster kinng, who came here yesterday from that city for safety abroad the past being opposite Chinkiang, the N.K.K EL-Tutung” Mara, interview with Pressmen, in the position is of the greatest imports
ed ar
ance to the Northerners.
erners'
The
1
-**** Chlhit Plan of Qampaign.
railway backing up the armoured
trait:
The 4th Army, under General. Fang Yung Chang would operate from feuow an ine east as a base and the 3rd Army would be between them and ane Tui Army on the left. The 13th Army, which had already advanced as far as Shanhsien, in South-Western Shanthing, together with the 24th would be the extreme right of the Cauld be th
General Hau was very bitter On the Shanghai-Nanking Ape, he said, were ruining the socisi anu Against the Communists who, as It was on August 13th when the there is considerable activity in the intustrial stability of the country Southern troops began to arrive st Chinking Since then Eduthern movement of troops from Yangtze Satherly because in Shantung Whatever they went, and more. soldiers have been pouring, a to ports within the range of the North-ho were employing bandits sau the tity from Yangchow and other places in the pas
anillery, and refugees that erminals to do their dirty upper reaches of river in jaoks. At present Chin-arrived at Shanghai North Railway providing them with arma anu Kinng is warming with soldiers station in large numbers yesterdayap the country in a state of con mone and encouraging them to who number several tens of thou The muddle and congestion at the fusion y methods which no civil- sands. The British Consulate, the residence of the American Commsi- latter station is much the same izedernment would _counten. sioner of Customs, and a Japanese as reported in yesterday's issue. bandied the General said
zace
18 Northerners were much hotel, all of which are located in Chinese entering the Settlement at through difficulty of policing the former British. Concession, are occupied by Chinese soldiers. “
the boundaries are searched by the country behind the front lines, The Bandit, Had increased tremen- "I was one of the foreigners who members of the Shanghai Defence dously since Southern agents had remained in the old British Con- Force and the Municipal Police. penetrated into the province, and. cession to the last, but number
it was a very difficult matter to Southern spies and instigators of detect and eliminate the disguised erime on account of the danger of executing innocent parties by mis- take, and," the General said,,
of Chinese soldiers forced a en- The replacement of the rails at france even into the kitchen of my Jessfield iron bridge has, of course, house, and I have come to this city considerably helped the retiring for salety, There are about & Nationalist troops in Bight, but dazer Japanese remaining in that
office of the Standard Oil Cò.
city, but all of them are now on there is still great congestion at are particularly anxious bot board the Japanese destroyer Chinking and Soochow and the to bring hardships upon the old Kashi The foreign residents, 12 retirement is only progressing slow. hundred names which, I 'under- in number, are now staying in the iv. Four special trains passed stand, is a phraze used to design-
Residents Panic-Stricken, through Jessheld yesterday on their "The Chinese merchants there way to Hangehow and more arO
expected. are doing business with much dit- ficulty, and the citizens are panic. stricken, fearing occurrence of riot-i ing by the Southerú soldiers. One of the two steamers of the CMS.N. Co which left for Nanking on the night of August 17th felly loaded with troops, turzed back to Chin kiang.
According to a report from Mr. Kato, of the Salt Inspector's Office at Yangchow, not a single Southern soldier is stationed in Yangchow, but General Sun'a soldiers have not yet entered the city.”—Toho,
Newi
BLACK BORDERS FOR 20. sent, the public, assumes that the
food was deliberately poisoned
MOSCOW MYSTERY OF BANQUET POISON.
CHINA NEWS DEPRESSES BOLSHIES.
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ate the law abiding old farmer residents in the country districts. The Bandit Ravagers, Questioned further an Chinese Curlew Order,
to the effects of this sort of warfare où Martial law was enforced in Chi- the country, General Hsa said that ness territory on Thursday night, the regular Southern soldiere do when a special order was issued by not themselves oppress or rob the the military to the effect that no common "people. On the other person was allowed to pass through hand they pose as the saviours of the special military area after 7 the people encouraging them rise o'clock unless he gave the pass against the wealthy lad owners word, and, after 10 p.m. Bo one and appropriate sheir land hold unless he was in uniform. In otherings. But they do levy large sums districts, not included in the so- in what accounts to blackmail from called military area, curfew was the land gentry and wealthier set at North China Daily classes, and with the money they organize and arm bandit hourda why do oppress the peopfe terribly, robbing sad killing without re straint, and in the end "the pea ants are the greatest sufferers, though they are Soo ignorăsit "to A rumour has spread to the see the indirectly it is the Souther capital that terrorists have been at
saviours"! who are to blame for work in Fetrograd and that they the more recent miseries that have could explain the mystery of the cone upon them at the hands of death of the twenty.
bandits: "But, the General con There is, indeed, much to de- tihued, we now have this sort of press the adherents of the Com-thing better in hand "We have munist Party, Borodin's report on sent arinies through the whole the position in China has arrived width of the province from north and has acted like a douche of cold to south to comb out the country the Communet International bandit armies hiding in the moun water on the Central Committee of districts and, while there are still It is fully expected that in contains who may make shott radda sequence the funds available for the from time to time, we know where revolutionary work of the 'Inter they are and we have reserve forces tional will be diverted from China in the rear at strategic points to The place and cause of the centres of Great Britain, Poland, country in the same manner that and employed in the industrial see that they do not ravage the deaths are omitted from each, and it is therefore assumed that the
and France
they have been doing for the past. twenty were victims of anti-Bol the anti-Soviet disturbances in the been handicapped by pressure on Another cause for depression is few weeks For some time we have shevik terrorism. It is known that Ukrains. Balintski, the head of the the flanks from these behind the all the persons present at a Bol Ukraine 0.G.P.U. has been sus line alies of the Nationalists. chevik banquet were taken violently moned to Odessa to discuss what But when General Fang, with the ill and showed every symptom of is to be done to relieve the pressure fourth army, took Tchow on the 9th being poisoned, and it is therefore on the prison accommodation. assumed that the number of guests. He declared that the Soviet were practically cleared of these irre the whole of Eastern Shantung was who died, which was given as six, involved in petty warfare and that gulars and the 13th Army occupied has increased to twenty,
the Ukraine's attempt to separate Shanhaien bringing the right fank Whether contaminated food was entirely from Moscow was fostered up to the centre, and we are now served by accident or whether the by Ukrainian agitators from Poland. about ready to launch our planned poisoning was due to conspirators A number of these have been aroffenlive for the recovery of all the is not known, but in Moscow, where rested at Kiell, and it is assumed territory north of The Langfize -great- nervousness prevails at preat they will be ahot
BXILIN
Twenty large announcements of the death of Bolshevik officials In the service of the Soviet Republic" appear in black borders in the Moscow newspapers."
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