ting is reported near the Poking-Hankow railway zone, south) of Hsuchang, between the 13th Division of the 2nd Route Army under General Hsin Tou-yin and the rebel units under General Tang Song-chi The first encounter with the rebels is said to have taken place at Huangshankuan, on the Peking Hankow Lino, on the 26th, when the Division advanced as far Hsuchshan and Shahotion and there entrenched. The insurgents attack-on the following: day. but_werg almost immediately repulsed. Fighting again broke out on the 20th, when, in spite of heavy snow and Fain, the insurgents attempted again to dislodge the Government forces dat are reported to have suffered heavy casualties and retreated towards Hauchang, The 9th Division under General Chiang~ Ting-wen arrived Chumatien: yesterday, after having taken over three battalions of the rebel units under Kung Hao who had previously declared his loyalty to the Government.
'The enrive staff of the Provisional' Headquarters of the Commander-in-Ghiet has arrived from the Capital. With the dispatch of troops to the Honan front, it is learned that the Oficial bulletins released by the local Headquarters state that in spite of the heavy. snow-fall during the past few days throughout southern Honan, military activities of the. Government forces have been carried out according to previous plana, and that the rebels under Tang Song-chi are practically surrounded in the region around Hsu-
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