REPORTED DESERTION
GOVERNOR OF ANWHEI
(Sydney Sun Cable.)
SHANGHAI, 4th March.. Despite official denials, it is increasingly reported-that General Chen Tiayuan, Governor of Anwhei Province, has joined the southerners, cut the-Tientsin-Pukow railway, and destroyed a large briiigo in Kuchen, North Anwhei thus cutting off Shang Tsung-cliang's main means of moving large Shantung forces to Nanking, on the way to Shanghai. If the report is true it means the biggest reverse for the Northerners, as the Southerners will now be able to come through Anwhei and attack Nanking on almost all sides, while the Northerners with their forces will be practically split in half and unable to rush up reserves. The cutting of the railway also will prevent a Ifengtien advance on Honan. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 11
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123REPORTED DESERTION Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 11
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