Shanghai, Dec. 14.
From different telegrams wireless despatches reaching this office yesterday from Hongkong and Canton, it seems definitely confirmed that Canton has been recaptured from the communists after a most sanguinary fight between the Red Corps and the troops of General Li Puclin lasting a whole day and night, with about 4,000 Communist guerillas killed and wounded.
At 3 pin. on the 12th, the Anti Communist Forces under the direc tion of General Li Fu-lin and General Chu Huai-jih launched a big. offensive from Honan on the Red corps and a battle ensued in the outlying districts of the city. At about ¢ pin, General Li's troops lined 'a decisive victory and suc-seeded in foreing the Communist troops to retreat into the city. General Chu Huaijih's troops then pressed for an entrance and finally: succeeded in breaking in. Throughout the whole night, fighting tinued inside the-city, with the com munists ravaging the city with loot~ ing and incendiarism.
Early in the morning of the 13t) the communists put up another stiff atte, making their last desperate effort, in face of the arrival of more batches of General Li Fu-lin's troops. The Red corps first launched an attack on the new arrivals, with the result that serious fighting broke out in the vicinity of Weihsin Road and Yihteh Road. Owing to the superior strength of General Li's forces, the Red troops were for a moment practically cornered, but at about 2 p.m, they succeeded in breaking through and escaped from the city by way of the Big and Smal, North Gates. With the withdrawal lof the Red troops, Gen, Li Fu-lin took over the various governmental organs and posted corps of soldi at important districts of the city for police and and patrol duties. At present, the situation seems to be well in control—Kuo Min, Flight of Communists
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