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ashing on Thursday. Stray bullets found their way as far ax Bridge No, 31 which is damaged, having been blown up by orders of the Garrison Commissioner of Sungkiang. General Ma Liang's troops, bearing ong staves topped with stoot arrived in Sungkiang and their position in the vlei Bridge No. 31. These troops have! no rifles. General Sun Chuan-fang, Tuli of Chekiang, is personally directing operations in Kashing. His troops, although veterans of a long' struggle in Fukien, are not well equipped or armed and General 'Chen Tiao-yuan has a very small force at Kashing, the main body of his troops remaining at Fengtai on the Huangtu-Kading front. Neither' side seems to have equipped troops on this front adequately for: a major engagement. Those who have visited these places report that, it is the apparent intention of both.
ides to draw off enough troops from the eastern front to weaken the enemy, but not to take away so many of their own troops as to be unable to hold their position.
It is reported that General Chen. has about 40 cars of various descriptions at his disposal as well as four engines and that he moved 2,000 men to the front from Hangchow in the course of a morning.
The Lunghua Report Dr._Loh, secretary to General Ho Feng-lin, in 2 communique issued at Lunghua at midnight stated that skirmishes had taken the vicinity of is about two miles from Sungkiang in the direction of Kashing.
Reports of fighting on the Huangtu front are denied.
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