RED FORCES ADVANCE FURTHER
FOOCHOW FALLS WITHOUT A SHOT
WAY NOW OPEN TO SHANGHAI
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) (Received 6th December, 11 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. The "Daily Mail's" Shanghai correspondent says that Foochow surrendered to the Bolsheviks and Cantonese without firing a shot. Admiral Chen-. Ping landed troops and tho defenders, rather than turn the city into a battle- | field, withdrew, allowing Chen-Ping to hoist tlie Red Flag over tho civil head-, quarters. Many defonders have joined the Cantonese. General Chang-Yi, commanding additional Cantonese, also advanced on Foochow. Th_ populace wero panic-stricken, though they hoped surrender would avert bloodshed and loot* ing. Foochow's capitulation opens the road for the Cantonese advance on Shanghai.
Foochow is the most important treaty port in China between Canton and Shanghai, about equidistant from either city. Shanghai i 3 now exposed to attack from west and 'south.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 9
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