When the Loo combination asserted itself in_ North -Fukien, General Chang Chen "was dasily engaged at bandit suppression, of rather "prevention, in the sonth-Western sections "of the. province. Upon receiving news that "he was being publicly anathematized and outlawed by Loo Hsin-pang, General Chang Chen immediately recalled his entire army, rapidly concentrating them at Changchow fand leaving the outlying mountain-fous and bandit-infested regions totally unprotected.
Availing themselves of the pol tical disorders in Fukien, "the famous leaders of the Communist Army, Che Te and Mou Tse-tung, who throughout the two years just past have been an open sore the Kiangsi-Fukien border, retreated before the pressure of General Chin Hanting of the Kiang forees, and again entered Fukien, occupying the important cities nent the southwestern border of the Province. Already reports are be. Jing received of the usual waste and destruction, pillage and plunder, tyranny and bloodshed which follow the train of this savage and rapacious body of tro0
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