Peking telegram says that Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, - acting] Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forees in North (China and Marshal Wu Peicfu's leading tieatenant, is bringing his men to the south to Support' Marshal Wu against the Cantonese, Kiukiang telegrams report that Gen. Hsieh Hung-hsun's Chekiang troops attacked a powerful Cantonese force near Heiushui in Kiangsi on the 17th instant and drove them back with heavy losses, the Cantonese thus sustaining their first defeat since they set out on the anti-northern expedition, The southerners have retreated to Hungehiao, Gen. Lu Hsiang-ting, Tupan of Chekiang, has arrived at the front and is directing the Allied army.
Gen, Fang Pin-jen, former Tochun of Kiangsi, who was dismissed recent-by Marshal Wu Pei-fu and who has thrown in his lot with the southerners who have appointed him to the post of Pacification Commis. sioner of Kiangsi, has occupied 'Yuanchow. and is' advancing
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