WAR IN CHINA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18186, 24 September 1924, Page 9

WAR IN CHINA.

MOVEMENT OF TROOPS.

(»* cabli—r»iss ASsoa*no3—corcxxcua) (BSCTKB'S TILKOEAMS j PEKING, September 22. There was very little fighting daring the week-end on the Hwangtu-Liu-ho front. General La Tnng-hsiang's decision to hold on is obviously to assist General Chang Tso-Lin by engaging, as long as possible, fairly large forees that would otherwise be employed by General Wu Pei-fu in. the North. Hehas shortened his front to 30 miles, and it is hold by 35,000 Shantung troops, all believed to be loyal. General Lu is credited with the intention, ultimately, of falling back on positions two milea from the boundaries of tho foreign settlements in Shanghai. This will almost certainly mean that Bome Kiang-au shells will fall inside the boundaries with the result that —so General Lu is said to calculate —foreign intervention, which is not unfavourable to himself, will be assured. The Kiang-su commander in the past four days has been bringing up farther reinforcements, especially of guns, to tho front.

Dr. Sun Yat Sen remains at Shaokwan, on tho Kwang-tung-Kiangsu border, with a few thousand troops, but is not expected to play any effective part in tho war.

Reports from tho South state that Chen Chiung-ming, ex-Generalissimo of tho southern troops at Canton and an old enemy of Dr. San Tat Sen, is preparing to move towards Canton from Kwai-chow.