The Archive · 1924

MARSHAL CHI'S RESISTANCE TO NORTHERN INVASION

From Aux Own Comesrononer

Nanking, Dec. 21.

Gen. La Yung-hsiung (Tupan of Chili and Pacification Commissioner of Kiangsu and Anhui, who was formerly Tupan of Chekiang)

reported to have arrived, in Pengpu. (It was locally reported several days ago that he had arrived there accompanied by several brigades of Fengtien troops—Ed.) Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan (the "dismissed" Military Governor of Kiang-has moved yangtze River and Gen. Lu's advance, The local vficials are apprehensive that fighting is certain to break out. The city is quiet. All the gover: ment schools, including the National Southeastern University, closed yesterday and the students are return jing to their home

capital of Anhui Province and is ***Pengpu the temporary situated on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway Line, a little way north of kiangsu Province—Ed,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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