General Chiang Kai-shek is ill at the Country Hospital according to well-informed sources. General Chiang is suffering from the aftereffects of dental treatment. For many years he has had a number of abeessed teeth, but has never had the time to attend to them. Just before the commencement of the Northern Expedition, he began 'a course of dental treatment, which, however, was constantly interrupt fod by his duties in Nanking and Jat the front.
On August 17 and 18, some his teeth were pulled out and a haemorrhage of the gums resulted which was stopped only after long. fend difficult medical treatment.
will be necessary for him to take a rest understood that the plans to go to Fenghua, where hho will be less likely to be disturbed by callers and the immediate pressure of affairs.
The "North-China Daily News") has been able to ascertain from an unimpeachable source that General Chiang's illness-is actual and not politiest.
It is, however, important to note that this illness, does not interfere with troop movements which are taking. place throughout the. lower} Yangtze, It would appear from reports from Chinese and foreign sources that Anhui is again filling up with' military contingents and that the 4th Army, the only one in the First Army Group which fought during the: Northern Expedition, is making for Kiukiang, This army is particularly embittered against the Kuangsi faction which drove it out of Canton and which has ondered the punishment of its commander, the Communistic General Chang Fa-kuei. In the meantime, General Pei Chung-hsi is returning to Hankow from the North to take charge! of the Kuangsi forces in Hunan' and Hupeh.
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