Peking, Jan. 98, Official reports state that 6,000 Kuangsi_ troops are operating on the eastern border of Yunnan, that their objective is Mengtze and their intention to out the communities between Yunnanfu and Indo-China. This region is apparently undefended except by small numbers of recruite, The native press confirms the news that there has been a successful fight at Loping but the facts are hazy and it seems safe only to assume that the Kuangsi troops have up to the present proved loyal.
There is no further news from the neighbourhood of Suifu, but it is now known that the force operating here and numbering about 6,000 was collected at Chaotung early in the outbreak and thus had only a short march into Szechuan.
Tsai Ao, apparently, left Yunnanfu on January 6 for Weining in western Kueichow, in which pro-vinea he is now supposed to be leading the main body of the rebels in the direction of Chungking.—From Our Own Correspondent. silence in Szechuan, with regard to which province nothing is known, except that an expeditionary force is slowly concentrating at Chungking.
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Is is officially reported that the Government troops have occupied Mengteze and that. the neighbouring regions have surrendered. The successful troops are understood to be General Lveg Chi-kuang's men sent from Kuangtung. This news is somewhat difficult to reconcile with the reported prospect of defection on the part of Kuangsi.—From Our Own Correspondent.
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