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run i donde and chupavui ulatuso beric
.Hoidamotni quoy tol
iner y'imi coselig ad oð Birnuça
i onnan hues to nezjen almi
to the Last" and "when the Cantonese arrive in
Shanghai you will find..............*
He gave no a full
appreciation of the military position as set forth
at the military conference he had attended in
Nanking two days previously. He said that from their point of view time was an important factory. If they could have a month in which te recuperate their position would be fairly good. Sun till has 30,000 men left we are logai to him. Kiangal
is completely evacuated. Lai Halangting, Ban'■
principal general, whose troops bore the brunt of the
fighting around Ranchang, get away from that area
across the Poyang Lake in boats with the remant
of his forcл He is now at Nanking. Kiukiang
was lost owing to the defection of only a mall part
of the 3rd Cheklang Division under Chou Feng-chi
who, as a matter of fact, never fled to Shanghai as
they believed at the time. The warrant for his arrest has accordingly been withdrawn. Nevertheless Chou, with the remainder of the 3rd Division, has been sent back to some place between Kiukiang and Nanking and is considered to be definitely out
of the fight -
General Chen Tiao-yuan has withdrawn from the usuch area to Northern Aniwef, the defence of
Hi which has been entrusted to him by San. loyalty appears to be doubtful and it is not improbable that he will either declare the independence of Anhwei, or turn over to the Nationalists. If he does the former it may open the way for the Shantang
troops
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