WAR IN CHINA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 September 1924, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA.

QUIET WEEK-END. BY CABL’I—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PEKIN, Sept, 22. There was little fighting during the week-end on the Hwangtu-Liiho front. General Lu.’s decision to hold on is obviously to assist General Changtsolin by engaging as long as possible the fairly large forces that would otherwise be employed by General Wupeifu in the north. Wu has shortened his front to thirty miles, which is held by 35,000 Shantung troops, and all are believed to be loyal.

Lu is credited with the intention of ultimately falling bac-k on positions two miles from the boundaries of the foreign in Shanghai. This will almost certainly: mean that seine Kiangsu shells will fall inside the boundaries in order that (so Lu is said to calculate) foreign intervention, which is not unfavourable to himself, will be insured. Kiangsu in the past four days has been bringing up further reinforcements, especially guns to the front. Sun Yat Sen remains at Shaokwan, on the Kwangtung-Kiangsu border, with a, few thousand troops, and he is not expected to play any effective part in the war. Reports from the south state that Chenchiungmiiig, exGeneralissimo of the southern troops at Canton, an old enemy of Sun-Yat Sen, js preparing to move towards Canton from Waichow.