Hsuchow, July 17, Following up their recent victory over the Kuominchun rebels,—the Right Wing Government Forces on the Lung-Hai front are taking the-offensive cast of Houcheng and north of the Lung-Hai Line in Honan, where the remnant rebels are concentrating.
the Peking-Hankow front, an: other Government success is repotted by General Yang Fu-cheng, Con: mander of the 17th Route Army, who is in charge of the Lett Wing Fores. Following a battle between his units and the Kuominchun me surgents under Tien Chin-Kal in the Lushan region, western Honan, on the 14th and 16th instant, the Gov. ernment forces drove the. rebels: northwards after capt large quantities of ammunition, According to a despatch from the Tientsin-Pukow railway front. the' Government forces advancing along: three separate routes are converging on'Tsinan. The ist Army Corps une der Gen. Han Fuchu ate approach ing the city from the east alan, the Kiaochow-Tsinan Railway and: the Central Route Army on the, Tientsin-Pukow sector are steadily' pressing northwards Wing forces are m: cheng, west of Taian, where a detachment of the Shansi rebels is con. centrated to oppose the advance in the western part of Tsinan.
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