According to information received in Shanghai by official circles over the week end, Mayehal Sun Chuanfang has collected the remnants of hig Kianysi and Chekiang annies Hind has started a drive welch Put him in control more of the|1 district from Yangchow to the Yangtac. The reports further state that Chinkiang is being evacuated disorder by the The fighting, which wan apparent:
a large scale when viewed ip the light. of Chinese warfare, stayted on April 8, whea a force under the deposed Tuchun, consist ing of his own loyal, troops. and reinforcements of other divisions of he Northerners, started: their drive inthe neighbourhood of Yangehaw By Saturday they had apparent broker the Nationalist defences And put the Cantonese troops to complete rout. That day boatiouds of Nationalist wounded were being brought across the river, attesting to the severity of the fighting. At the same time ull the river craft in the vicinity had been commandeered to bring across the viver the defeated Sotithers forces, who were complotly demoralized.
Aa fast as the Nationalists pour-into Chinktang they wire being! put on trains, some of them heine went to Changchow, while the others were sent. along the railway to Nanking.
It in further reported that th re ig great consternation among the merchants of Chinkiang owing to the situation, Tu many. instadees, these are replacing the Kuomintang. flag with the five-barr' banner of the} Northerners. It is. not known whether the retreating armies have looted, but foreign houses at least will be safe from thin since they! were complotly looted during the Cantonese invasion,
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