FIGHTING IN CHINA
AN OBSCURE SITUATION NORTHERN TROOPS’ ADVANCE. (A. & N.Z.) SHANGHAI, May 12. Some 40,000 of General Chiang Kai Shek’s troops crossed the Yangtszc 40 miles up the river from Nanking, for the purpose of co-opcrating with General Chen Tiao Yuen in attacking the Pengpu northern communications. The Cantonese report that they won a victory at Luchowfu in Anhwei Province, but are threatened by attacks. In the Kiangsu Province, the extremists are digging trenches and erecting fortifications in expectations of the Northerners, who are reported to be occupying Tsungming Island, at tie Yangtszc mouth, close to Shanghai. Several northern warships have left Tsingtao for the south. News from Hankow is contradictory, but it is comparatively certain that General Yang Sen, the Wanhsicn coinmanor, has formed an alliance with General Chiang Kai Shek. French residents at Ichang are under orders to prepare for evacuation within a few hours in view of the situation, which is becoming worse.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 7
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