The Archive · 1930

REPORTED DEFEAT

OF CHANG FA-KUEI

Rebel Leader in Kuangsi Said to Have Been Beaten and Put to Flight: Kueilin Occupied by Government Kunth fatty tr sctupctio' of Kelana he Milt of Cha The Jolt. news, veperting the. liguidat the Packuel hea been sent to.

General Stay Headquarters Nenkis egret over te' slgstuts of the june date January 22

Nanking, Jan. 20.

A telegram from Wuchow dated January 19 says that the Eighta Route Army ~ecupied Keeilin on Saturday last. There was a large surrender of enemy troops and Chang" Fa-kuei with the remainder fled toward Ming.

'Commander Chen announced plans for the immediate reorganization of the surrendered troops, but officers from captains upward' will not be accepted.

Regarding the Kuangsi situation Chen and Luh Huan-yen have work: ed out definite plans and expect to settle all Kuangsi affairs within jone month. Huang Chuan's troops have made overtures to Luh Huan-yen who has ordered Huang to move his troops to. Shihlung and wait for reorganisation. Vu Tso-pai had organized Soviet armies at Pajte artd Lungchow. Luh Huan-yen has sent troops together with the local volunteer corps by different routes for the purpose of accom-lishing the complete suppression of Yu's troops, A message from Kiungchow on January 18 says that at the time of Chang. Fa-Kuel's rebellion in Kuangsi Cheng Ting-ping's troops at ed, by the reorganizaticni fed' against the government whilst the communists there ran riot and ocoupied Kiungshan, Tingan, Ling-hui and Manyun. 'In view of the spread: of the communistic terror and the people's sufferings, Commander Chen ordered Cun Chai with the gunboats, Chungshan, Haihu, Puan, Mingsen and Kuang-king, ete,, to' patrol around Kiung-[chow and Chen Ming-hun's regiment with some other units at Humen were to go by the str. Chiaoko and Taishung to Kiungchow while some units from Luichow were to ferry across the channel and suppress the rebels and communists, Tt is said that Chen Chai reoccupied Kiungshan and other towns successively, tranquilized the population, and set a time limit for the complete suppression of communists and reactionaries.

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