Without doubt, however, Chen Chiung-ming and his followers Know that they cannot hope defeat the much better student cadets, who have drilled and equipped by officers, unless they can attack them from many sides. At most, there! can be no more than 19,000 men in the cadet army, so that if they can be forced to thin their ranks by prolonging the battle line, victory' for Chen Chiung-ming is almost}
T still see small groups of wound-soldiers coming back from the East River front, and from a re-Liable source, learn that Gen. Chen has some 30,000 already massed in the district between Swatow and Canton which will shortly, it is believed, start in earnest. A number of northern gunboats are expected to ce-operate with the ex-Governor his offensive.
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