Kuangtung Command Outwitted by Ironsides and Kuang:
Faox vx OWN ConnesronoeNt Canton, June 25.
With lightnitig rapidity, the Iron. side-Kuangsi strategists have shift jed their men, and out-manceuvring Kuangtung adversaries have left the latter stranded in Hunan, far away from their own capital, while the anti-Nationalist troops can march down into Kuangtung, "and yet, fighting in mountainous country: can make it exceedingly hard -for their enemies to follow in their wake, Kamchow, Nananfu ud Chian are reported to have been occupied by the Tonmen and the Kuang-ites, getting close enough to the Kuangtung frontier to make the ftuation here decidedly precarious.
Better generalship, as has been the case from the beginning of the present campaign, has put the enemy within easy marching' dis-' tance of Canton City. And the Way
was in this wise: Tsai Ting-hai and thei strategic brains worked Chang Kuang-nei were so engrossed with the task of reaching Changsha not perceive the outs Kuei and his ce-workers men cut right through the middle
tung punitive expedition, got of mach of the Kiang id followed the railroad:
Loyang is now sat has succeeded in getting the advantage of the other side, has left Chang and Tsai fcr afield, and is threatens ing to.take their capital Nevertheless, the taking of the capital may not be so easy as seems. at first bush. Commander in-chief Chen Chitang has not-put all of his eggs in one basket, and has Held about half of best fightery in reserve to make sure that. Kuangtung is not invaded, At Swatow is General Heung Han-ping. with his division, sent there to chase away the Reds and the banditti, and to which the Kiangsi border, String along the West River are the wa riots ut Division Commander Hanahou, and these can be moved up to the zone from which ti Tronside-Kuangsi "force may be ex: pected to start its thrust towards Canton quicker than all others.
Newspapers here cannot breath word about these important hap penings, but it is a matter of official, record that General Vu Han-mou has just been made the Director of Military Operations for Southern Kiangsi. Most probably this con: mander will not step on Kiangst sot, but he left for Shivkuan last night, and his men are under oder to come straight down to Canto and to entrain for Shiukuan, whence they will-be sent to Nanyang and the Muiling Pass. They will be'the little Dutch boy stopping the hole it the dike through which the diners fous current is about to spout to inunate the homeland. And if they can stem the invading tide for while until Heung Hon-ping's men jean march across from Swatow; there may then be a strong enough force to hold up the advance until the other divisions can get back from Buna' 4
'Aged -and decrepit men' and we men tired of life, rely" in thoit drawn into the maelstrom of suied Curlies in the week an 80-yenr old did away with himself, ind year old woman emulated hig'
dant la he next day 63 terday it was a Ib-year el Jad-who tried to end it all, and to' ass on into a world less cruel.
This youngster leaped from. 'a! third-storey window, and with many broken bones was carried into hospital, where the doctors say they! may pull him through, though was a close call.
'Betrothed to a nee maiden} younger oven than himself; this ey, was griefciriken when not so Tong ago she died after a brief illie and his sorrow was too much f him to' bear. All interest in his!
was lost, he could not Keep his mind on his books, and so it wat that his tachers hed him in hot" water all the time. When this be? came unbearable he took a. vacation! Without first getting, permission," fand.was soundly thrashed when hol returned tochis studies. That was' the last straw, and he made hi Teap to whit be hoped was to his death,
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