Changsha, June 23, One Hunan brigade under the personal direction of General Lit Chien-sui advancing eastward from Chuchow has occupied Lilinghsien.
Kuangsi rebels are stated to he fleeing southward and coneentrat-Jing in the Yuhsien-Anjou region, According to an official dispatch yom General Chen Chi-tang, Commander of the &h Route Army, at Chengchow in southern Hunan, the insurgents have evidently abandoned their original intention of making for the Hunan-Hupeh border in face of the pressure from the Govern ment troops and are planning a general withdrawal back towards the Liang Kuang. General Chen further adds that he has ordered the concentration of the three Kuangtung divisions in southern Hu which will against the enemy, and requ that the Kiangsi and Hunan units should proceed south so that final blow may be struck at the insurgents by the combined Government frees, June 25.
According to reports from the Military Intelligence Corps, the \jority of the insurgents concented in the ing region are retreating in two directions; a part of the rebels making for Yunghing' with the view to invading southern Kiangsi and the rest fleeing in a westerly direction towards Sinning to join a detachment of the rebels there,
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