Yesterday (July 31) the "Ch'en Pao," an exceptionally well informed! but rather erratic paper, gave a report of the movements of the Ching An, which ran somewhat as follows:
The northern troops under Wang Yung-chuan, in Foochow, and the anti-Sun Yat-sen forces in Swatow, under the general command of Chen Chiung-ming, have been ce-operating lately. The Anfu commander at Amoy, Chuang Tsz-ping, has been working fo Sun Yat-sen against both sides. The Foochow and Swatow forces recently decided to elimin nate Chuang and, to this end, decided to move Chinese gunboats against Amoy. The gunboats in Foochow and Swatow were short of ammunition and_ supplies, so the northern militarists were asked to send an auxiliary boat with a shipment of supplies. Admiral Tu Shth-kuei, the Commander-in-Chief, therefore detailed the Ching An to proceed to Fukien to carry supplies to the pro-northern boats. The Ching An was, at the time, in command of a Fukienese. Fearing that a Fukienese commander, might be loth to carry ammunition for the bombardment of Amoy, a Fukienese port, a certain Chu T'ien-sen, a Yangchow man, and therefore a northerner, was put in command.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.