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ENCLOSURE NO. 3.
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Extract from Tai Kwong Po, Hongkong, 30th July, 1926.
Particulars re occupation of Ping Howng
by the Forthern pedition.
▲ report from Ping Heung reads as follows:- Since Tong Fuk Shan, inder the title of Defence Commissioner of West Kiangai, marched into Ping Heung with the First Division of the Kiangai Army, the Ninth Mixed Battalion under Cheng Fung Ki, was sent by detachments to Kan-cheung for purposes of training. Thereupon Tong was solely responsible for the Test of Kiangai. It happened that Ip Hoi Kam of Hunan waged war with Tong Shang Chi, and Tu Pei-fu sent an urgent wire to Tang Yu Teuk, Generalissimo of Kiangai, instructing him to send a re-inforcement at once to help Ip. Tang then directed Tong Ful Shan to do so, and therefore the latter sent his First Battalion out under the commend of Ying Hang. Fortunately Tong Shang Chi was defeated (by Ip Hoi Kam) and Fu availed himself of the opportunity to enter Lai Ling, thence he wired to Tang to report his victory. Later, Tong Shang Chi offered a second counter-attack; Ip Hoi Kam was greatly defeated, and Fu had to retreat from Lai Ling, suffereing a loss to the number of a Company. Shortly after Ip regained all the
land he had lost, and Fu, with his re-inforcement, again occupied Lai Ling. Of late, on the 10th inst., however, Tong Shang Chi succeeded in taking Cheung Sha, and Fu, after a furious battle with Tong Shang Chi on the 14th and 15th had to retreat back to Ping Heung on the 16th. Tong Fuk Shan again sent his 2nd Battalion under Li Kim Shek to join the fight, but the latter was also seriously defeated.
Therefore, Tong Fuk Shan had to retreat to On Yuen with the
reement of his troops, and on the 18th the Hunan soldiers of
Tong