CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926 — Page 183

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Kiungobow.

23rd January, 1926.

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It has been known sinos the beginning of the year that, after the evacuation of Leichow which took pluan at the end of December, Cantonese gunoosts and

a fleet of junks were gath÷ring there for the invasion of Hainan, ond that the only hope of resistance lay in the immediate arrival of the Northern gundoɛts from Kongkong. Fruitless efforts were made by General Tong Pen-yin to induce them to come, the difficulty pro ba- bly being the exhorbitant squeeze demanded,

On the morning of Jammary 18th it was rumoured that a force five to six hundred streng, conveyed in two Cantonese gunboats and five junks, had landed dur- ing the previous night at Pochin, about 15 miles to the last of Hoihow. All the shops iz Hoihow promptly put up their dukters und a proclamation ismed in the evening by General Yang Ming-chish to the effect that it was merely an affair of local bandits, which could

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