A NEW ENEMY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 9

A NEW ENEMY.

CHOLERA BREAKS OUT

Heavy Toll Of Southern

Chinese Troops.

SCARCITY OP MEDICAL AID.

(By Cable.—Pw Association.—Copyright.)

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SHANGHAI, September 2.

Although General Son Chuan-fang's campaign against the Southern armies has apparently ended in failure, thus leaving the Southerners in possession of Nanking', Shanghai and all the territory south of the Yangtse, a new enemy has appeared in the ranks of the Southern army in the form of cholera, which is spreading rapidly and taking a huge toll of Jife.

Hundreds of bodies are thrown into the river daily as it is impossible to bury them. There is a scarcity of medical aid, but all possible precautions are being taken here against the introduction of the disease.

General Sun Oman-fang's forces are retreating towards Chuchow, between Pokow and Pengpu, the lack of support from General Chang Tso-lin being responsible for his collapse.

CHINA'S WAR.

Pukow Retaken With Much

Slaughter.

HANKOW TROOPS ADVANCING.

SHANGHAI, September 2.

The local Nationalist authorities state that two divisions of Southerners crossed the Yangtse and drove out the Northerners, and reoccupied Pukow, silencing the artillery which has been bombarding Nanking for the past week.

They claim that they killed, wounded, or captured over 30,000 Northerners in recent fighting, and disarmed 40,000 and scattered the rest.

British warships anchored at Nanking confirm the retirement of the Northerners at that point owing to the menace to their line of communications.

Hankow troops are advancing through the Northern territory at Anhwei, but other reports state that a large body of Northerners are still on the south bank of the Yangtse preparing for an attack on Nanking.