MoxDay, Feb, 20.
It is reported that General Chiang. Kai-shek returned to Nanking from Kaifeng in conference with Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang during the past week. The agreement Detween General Chiang and Marshal Feng has not been made public, Gut it is known that they conferred fon the campaign of the Spring offensive against the North and that they intend to continue the North. ern, Expedition.
General Ching has now taken over full command of the 1st Route Army, which gives him possession fof a large body of men, variously estimated in figures above 100,000. General Chiang had previously' not. had an army of his own, being to a large extent dependent upon commanders who' were nominally sub. ordinate to himself as commander-in-chief.
General Ho Ying-chin, who has been in command of the Ist Route Army and of the 1st Army has been elevated to the position of Chief of Staff of the Nationalist Armies, position which is meaningless and The vernacular papers report. that General Chang Tso-hsiang is attacking the Yenmen Pass, North Shansi, and has forced the Shansi forces to retreat somewhat, The commander of the 23rd Army claims that he captured Tsnochow on February 16, the enemy leaving many killed and wounded soldiers on the field. Man; mers, he ays, were taken Reuter, Kuominchun Across Yellow River.
Shanghai, Feb, 22.
The Garrison Commander's Headquarters received the following special dispatches from the front this morning:
1. Several companies 6f the Shantung-Chihli troops under Hsu Kann on the Tsin-Pu Line have surrendered to the Nationalist Army.
2. Chang Chung-chang is report ed to have arrested Chen Kuo-sui and Wang Tun, his two leading subordinates, on the charge of conspiracy and' treason. Chen is said to have been courtmartialled and shot.
3. General Feng Vu-hsiang's troops have occupied Tang-Yi in Western Chihli. The fall of Tung-chang is momentarily expected.
Fengtien troops on the Kin Han Line are now rapidly withdrawing towards Paotingfu, being apprehensive of the advance' of the Kuominchun and the Shanghai Army.
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