Fan's troops, who are styled the "Kienkuochun," hold" several important strategic positions on both the Kin-Han and Lung-Hai railways and cover a front stretching from Chengchow westward to Kunghsien. and southward to Hsuchow, His base is reported to be at Kunghsien, where there is a large arsenal and where, after heavy fighting last week, he succeeded in ousting the troops who remained loyal to Feng.
The attitude of the Wuhan clique towards this latter phase of China's civil war is not quite clear, though the unrest in Honan is sufficiently near home to make the outcome of "immediate importance to the local warlords. There are three of Feng's representatives at present in Hankow negotiating with Li Toung-jen and Hu Tsung-tu and endeavouring to persuade them to Jnuneh an attack on the recalcitrant. Fan from the south, but apparently their efforts are not meeting wita much success,
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