MILITARY MOVES
PROTECTING SHANGHAI
PEKIN, 4th March. Xlie only new .military development to-day is the news that Chang Tsung Chang is strengthening the garrison at boochow. This move is dictated by the tear of a possible souothovn attempt west of the Taihu Lake to cut his main line of communications, namely, the Shanghai-Nanking railway. Meanwhile large numbers of Shanghai troops continue to artive from Tsingtao, all pouring into Sungkiane T^Tlf th° SUU Chuan F™S troops. The latter are arriving in this a.- ea in considerable bunches. They are a poor Jot, looking iit for anything but fighting- Tim Shantung authorities are wisely diverting them from the city to Woosung prior to sending them' to worth Kiangsu.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 9
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116MILITARY MOVES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 9
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