FIGHTING IN CHINA
AIR BOMBING ATTACK large-scale operations GOVERNMENT EXPEDITION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SHANGHAI. Dec. 20 An advance unit of 150,000 Government troops under General Ho V ing-chin captured Hwahsien and bombed many rebel bases near bianfu from tlie air in preparation for a general attack. 'the hostilities followed the refusal of tho rebel Governor of Sliensi, General Chang Hsueh-liang, to deliver up tho President of the Executive Yuan, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, to negotiate for whose release Mr. T. V. Soong, lately Chinese Finance Ministor. travelled to Sianfu, where General Chang Hsueh-liang has his headquarters. 'I he Nanking Central Government authorities refuse to discuss the terms offered by General Chang.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22608, 22 December 1936, Page 9
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