The Archive · 1925

Reinforcements for Chekiang

Reinforcements for the Chekiang armies at Nanking and the immediate vicinity continue to pour through Shanghai North Station, Early yesterday morning 250 artilleryman chow and ent ward for Wusih, which is the official rear base of Gen. Sun Chuan-fang ime being. On Tuesday, 126 private body-span uniforms, armed with Mauser pistol railway station, where they were quartered in their private train, to the orders of their chief. I is semi-officially reported that 1,000 soldiers, heavily armed and well-equipped, have gone from Hangchow. to Kashing vid train and embarked there for the journey to Wusih on the Canal. A large quantity of spare ammunition went with them. Fifty eases of ammunition and 80 boxes of provisions have been sent from Lunghua to the Huchow Guild for local purposes, while 250 unarmed recruits from Hangchow went to Woosung on Wednesday to take over temporarily the places of the fighters atthe front.

The Chinese press reported yesterday that Gen. Yang Sua-chao, who, it will be recalled, held Kiating during the September war of 1924, against Marshal Chi Heieh-yuan's hosts on the critical sector, arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday. The telegram states that Marchal Sun urged and insisted that he, should leave Tientsin, where he had been living tly, and come to assist him in the campaign against If Yang leaves for Nanking, as it is he will and, gets there, Gen: 'Sun will receive a' most worthy "ahd killed disciplinarian and respected' and

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