CIVIL WAR CLOUD.
Reported Clash of Chinese Troops. CANTON AND NANKING. (Received 0.30 a.m.) NANKING, June 12. While the Kwangtung section of the southern army has been ordered to halt its advance towards Nanking, Kwangsi troops are reported to have clashed with Nanking Central Government forces. The order to halt aroused confidence that civil war would be averted, but a war fever appears to be seizing Canton, as a result of which Cantonese military cadets have been ordered to be prepared to "go to the front."
The Kwangsi and Kwangtung forces abandoned Hunan after a skirmish with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's defensive line, which aggregates 150,000 men. Southerners are also nervous of Canton's vulnerability to aerial attack in view of the Nanking Government's concentration of 30 bombing 'planes within 200 miles of the capital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 9
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