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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1933.

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Not For Fukien

Army Ranks Thinned By Red Campaign

Provincial Finances Low

(BY HOLLINGTON K. TONG

Alarm has been felt over the de- The 19th Route Army has 36) claration of the independence of planes whereas Kwangtung's planes Fukien. There is a general, but are more than, doublo that number. scarcely well-founded, fear that Aviators attached to the 10th Roule this autonomous

mayArmy are sons of overseas Chinese, movement spread to other provinces. Those and have not undergone a course ho have made a careful study off of severe training whereas those the new political situation in the working for General Char Chi-tang Southwest predict an early failury arc veterans in aerial war. Kwang,

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ment. There are & number of Immunition. That is another factor

Chen Chi- portant factors which will prevent in favour of General the extension of anti-Government | tank. activities to other provinces.

Troops Concentrated Financially. Fukien, where the The present Fukien movement so-called people's government was Ex against the Government in unched. is very poor. In former name, but in reality it is directed

Romance Ended

Married, but a few months to Arthur Hopkins, New York broker, Doris Kanyon, whose first husband was Milton SiÍB, movie star, is goon jo monk a divoros, according to Hsl- ywood gossip. She will give locom patibility, as the reason for the wreck of her romanes,

tites, its annual revenue did not at Kwangtung as its first target. CREVASSE:

jamount aven in the best year to In the event of the 19th Route more than $12,000,000, but now it Army making an attack upor (Continued from Page 12.) has been considerably reduced on Kwangtung, the Government force account of the long continued dia in Chekiang will assall its rear. His voice is muffled, then it be- orders in the country-side. Since Nanking learned of General Chen comes laughter on a rising note, it transfer from Shanghai to Fu. Ming-shu's plots a month ago, and becomes. screaming again, is chok. kien, the 19th Route Army has during that time has concentrated fed again. been receiving from the Central on the Chekiang-Fukien border

The captain and the sergeant Government a monthly subsidy of more than eight divisions of fight mount as high us they dare, prod- 8600,000.

ing men ready to advance int» Fu- [ding at the earth while the earth $8,- kien.

{shifts beneath them in long hush-

General Chen Ming-shu basportunity given by the 19th Route 17. launched the separation movement | Army's advance into the territory with only $6,000,000 in his war of Kwangtung for the reoccupation chest. This sum is far from suffi-of the territory they had previous- rient Lo finance #1 major cam-ly taken.

• Cargo only. + Calla Camblanca.

paign upon which he has figured in Frequent connection from Port Sald for Passengers and Cargo to Con-his program. There is little likeli-| stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by stemmers of the hood that financial aid from other Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.

The army managed to save Marseilles, Harte, London, Hamburs,000,000. but nearly half of this There is still another danger to jed sighs. At the foot of the pre- amount has been expended during the 19th Route Army If it decides icipice the men huddle, their faces the last two years. on various Items to operate against Kwangtung. ¡lifted faint, white, and patient in- suen as the purchase of fur coats Fukien has not yet been entirely to the light. The captain sweeps for an anti-Japanese expedition to cleared of Communist elements. No the torch up and down the cliff. | Manchuria and the re-conditioning) surprise would be occasioned if the There is nothing, no erm, no hand, of incir military equipments. Communists should choose the opin sight. The air is clearing slow-

"We'll get on," the captain saya. "Ay, sir-r," the sergeant says.

In both directions the cavern fades into darkness, plumbless and pro- No Compromise

[found, filled with the quiet akele- There is an obstacle to co-opera-itons sitting and leaning against the Lion between the Social-Democracts walls, their arms beside them.

"The ca in threw us forward," quarters would be forthcoming un- and the Communists in Faklen. less he succeeded in achieving During its re-capture of Yiping the the capta Rya.

"Ay, sir," the sergeant whis- same messure of military success, 19th Route Army seized Important

Open To Attack

pers. Communist documents which were General Chen

"Speak out," the captain Is handicapped subsequently published by the geographically. Fukien, which he Social-Democrata. One of these's but a bit of a cave. If men has chosen as the staring point of documents which the Communists got Into it, we can get out.”

"Ay, sirr," the sergeant whis his independence movement, does did not desire to be brought

[pers. not possess any strategical value. beneath the light of publicity was Jt is open to attack from every a proposal submitted by Mao Cho- trance will be yonder." side. In the south there the lung. a Communist leader, at a "Ay, air-r," the sergeant whis-

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the light as they pass The air Pukien is subject to naval attacks. Foreseeing all these difficulties. grows heavier; soon they are trot- It will be easy enough for it to General Chen Ming-shu has pre-iting gasping, then the air grows effect occupation of Foochow, aumably, made un alliance with lighter and the torch sweeps up an- Amoy and other important ports of Kwangsi to strengthen his position.jother slope of earth, closing the Fukian. The establishment of His concession of the position of tunnel. The men half and huddle. blockade will reduce the importance the Chairman of the new Govorn-¡The captain mounts the slope. He of Fukien as the stat of the new ment to General Li Chi-sheng, ac-snaps off the light and crawls slow- Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Government to a mere shadow.

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of the army pérished during it

SHOULD KNOW

⚫ (Continued from Page 8.)

perhaps, catching the excitements perhaps, begins. to laugh again,

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the men scramble into the tunnel. the avalanche which had closed the Then he descends, and be and the cave, at the foot of which the four- captain help the wounded man ay teen men are kneeling in a group, the slope. At the month of the On his hands and knees like a tunnel the wounded' man rebels, beast, the captain breathes, his "A'm no dead! "A'm no dead!" breath "making "'ahbargo" sound.

Since Socialiam pre-supposes the sight and a burst of day fight sista. He stands aside and watches emorges on to the outer slope of resistance to the Japanese inve- notion of people thinking they are surges.in Bion of Chapel in Shanghai in what in fact they are not, it follows, This others leave the wounded 1982. Three months ago the army as Diogenes Laertius so neatly put man and surge up the slope, Aght lost heavily in the anti-Communist it, that "Nothing can be produced ing and sparling at the opening. campaign at Yiping, The only out of nothing," From the above

sergeant springs after them division of the 19th Route Army it will be clear to you. that I am, and beate them away from the which would be able to put up a philosophically speaking, in favour opening, with a trenching upado, he walls, struggling. By cajolery, "Soon will be and he good show is the 61st division.- of being all things to all men. I cursing in his hoarse, whisper and force they thrust him, all thinks, dragging the Air, to his

“Let them go. Bergeant,"

the wailing and struggling into the lungs faster, that he can empty The face the 19th Route Army, stand for the classical philosophies

"Boon It General Chen Chl-tang has more modernised and adapted to the captain says,: The sergeant de tunnel, where he becomes docile them to respire again,

again and scuttles through. will be summer and the long days.” than 80,000 veteran soldiers under quirements of the modern reader-

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his personal command, A12 whose studies in this field are stecca.

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to and froinno time to change, governments, “After you, air-r," the sergeant centre has a Bible' in his hand, from divisions which can operate, Inds whilst straphanging

We simply cannot afford to swap whlapers.

which he is intoning monotonously. pendently in the execution of mill- their fally tasks,

"Out_wi" yo, man!" the captain Above his voice the wounded man' tary movements, one training alvi-In appealing to you, Ladies and asses whilst crossing the stream: slon, and one peace-preserving bH Gentlemen, to select me as your which divides the prospects of says, The sergeant enters the tun- gibberish rises, meaningless and

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