Feng's Troops Retreat to the Honan Border It i admitted in important circles that Tsining has been recaptured by Marshal Sun Chusn-fang's troops. Tsining is the strategic point at which the armies of Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang and the 4th Nationalist Army met and defeated Marshal Sun's troops and started what appeared fo be a Northern rout. The! capture of this city usually opens the way to the capture of Taian and leaves the Shantung capital, Tsinanfu, unprotected. Its recapture by Marshal Sun should protect Tsinanfu from effective attack along the Tientsin-Pokow line.
Marshal Feng's troops have retreated to the Honan border. It is reported that the conference between Marshal Feng and General)
ing Kai-shek resulted in a decision to give up the campaign along the Tientsin-Pokow line and to attempt to reach Tehchow by way of Taming on the Honan-Shantung This excludes military y on the part of the Ist, 9th and 4th Nationalist Armies which are directly controlled by General Chiang Kai-shek until Marshal Feng shall have reached Tehchox, which now does not appear very likely in this Spring's fighting.
Troops from Hankow Halted 'There are 20,000 Hunanese troops taking orders' from General Pei Chung-hsi and General Li Chung-Jjen, leaders of the Kuangsi faction of the Kuomintang, now on the Kin-They had advance! yang and have stopped there.
They have refused to move further on the ground that they must watch developments in Shantung and Honan. There ap-Pears every reason to believe that] the secret pact between Marsl.al
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