GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
Son's Troops Have no Heart to Fight. GENERALS DISAGREE. (Received 1.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, February 21. Refugees are crowding into the foreign settlement. The latest information from the front j is that Sun Oman-fang's army is deli-! nitely abandoning the Hashing line and j is falling back on Sungkiang, which ; means the evacuating of Chekiang. j It is known that there are dissensions! among Sun's generals and that the! troops, though well paid, fed and j equipped, have no heart for fighting. Chang Sung-chang has not yet sent assistance. It is reported that he has gone to Peking to confer with Chang Tso-lin. Altogether the outlook for Sun is gloomy-
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 9
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111GLOOMY OUTLOOK. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 9
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