The Combination Against the Kuominchun: Fighting on the Honan-Shantung Border Peking, Feb, 19, Chinese political circles attach' considerable importance to the activities of General Chin Yun-pong, who left for Tsingtao from Dairen instead of for 'Tientsin as had been intended. General Chin bears im-Fortant "proposals from Marshall hang Tso-lin, with whom General Chin had several conferences, during. fis week's stay at Mukden, regarding united action on the' part of Wuchang to combine against the According" to Chinese reports, Generals Wang Wai-wei and Chen Wen-chao, commanding two di sions of' General Chin Yun. troops, have started to attack Second Kuominchun on the Honan-Shantung border, and General Yueh Wei-chun has sent a division under General Tien Vu-chieh to strengthen the defence.
News from Honan is very confused and contradictory. A report that General Yang Sen has captured Honan is contradicted by a foreign report from Hankow which states that General Yang has gone to Changsha in order to discuss with General Chao Heng-ti_men-sures whereby he (General Yang) can take advantage of the unsettled state of Szechuan—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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