It is also possible that the cutting of communications near Hangchow might have been done because the Cantonese secured control of the situation and feared the despatch of Marshal Sun's forees toward Hangchow.
Marshal Sun's decision to make his line of defence near Kashing is probably due to a desire to watch developments at Hangchow and to be able at a moment's notice to send his troops in that direction should the Cantonese break through, It is learned that the railway was not seriously damaged where it was cut, rails only having been removed from a bridge, known as the Ling-ping.
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