DEADLY COMBAT

Northern Advocate, 18 November 1929, Page 5

DEADLY COMBAT

CHINESE TROOPS AT WAR PIERCE JfIGHT ATTACKS. PEOPLE'S ARMY PROGRESSES.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 11.150 a.m.) SHANGHAI, November 7. Half a million troops have now been locked in deadly combat for more than a month in Central China. The issue still remains in doubt. Feng Yu-hsing’s armies, known as the Kuominehun, or People’s Army, have been adriotly penned by|Chiang ■Kai-shek in the famine-stricken provinces of the North-West and must either fight or starve. Chiang Kai-shek is being compelled to strain every nerve to prevent the Nanking regime from collapsing. Foreign observers report that in order to conserve ammunition, the Kuominehun, making fierce night at* tacks, using only swords and bayonets, are charging with magnificent bravery fight into the teeth of merciless machine-gun fire. The Kuominehun have progressed southwards, seizing Ghushan, Fang-hsien and Fang Cheng, thereby imperilling the Government’s hold on Shangyang, where there is an arsenal. Meanwhile, there is severe,lighting ' in Honan, where a bitter contest is . raging.