Gen. Chen Chiung-ming's Despatch to Marshal Tuan: An Impending Battle Canton, Nov. 17.
'The political situation in following Dr. Sun Yat-sen'
Parture for Shanghai, is gradually calming down, for Gen. Fan Shih-sheng's troops have postponed their return to Yunnan.
The Canton Government, according to its original plan, is on the one hand striving to suppress the situation in the district of the!
East River by despatching there the Yunnan and Kuangsi troops and is on the other hand taking steps for the expansion of its influence to Kiangsi. To that end, Gen, Tan 'Yen-kai, 'Commander-in-Chief of the expeditionary forces against the North, standing at the head of the combined forces of Hunan, Honan, land Kiangai troops, will' be despatched to Kiangsi.
Gen. Chen Chiung-ming, who for ime past has been in his native town, Hailufeng, fon the 14th instant officially assumed the post as Commander-in-Chief of the Kuangtung troops. In the meantime, Gen. Chen has sent his representative, Ma Vu-hang, to Tientsin on a mission to effect jan understanding with Marshal Tuan's faction concerning his principle of autonomy of allied provinees in the South. is thought in well-informed political circles here that a decisive battle-will shortly take place in the cinity of Sheklung between Gen. Chen's forces and the combined troops belonging to Dr.. Sun's {faction—Eastern News Ageicy.
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