No Further Advance of Kiangsi Troops: The Threats against Foochow Peking, Nov. 29.
The military situation in Fukien is gradually beginning to assume a more definite character, but is still very involved. The Kiangsi troops, which entered Fukien with the avowed intention of engaging in hostilities against Gen. Wang Yungchuan, are now occupying Kuang-hang hsien, Kienningfu, Taining-hsien, Changlohsien and Shaowufu, and are said to be working in cooperation with Gen. Wang Hsien-ching who is at Shanghanghsien. The march of the Kiangsi forces towards Foochow, however, has} apparently ended Gen. Wang Yung-chuan has sent 2,000 men against the Kiangsi troops from Foochow, and they have reached Yenpingfu, where they are awaiting the arrival of reinforcements. Gen Sung Pan-hsu left Foochow yesterday for Yen-pinghu to take command of the Foochow troops.
A new factor has arisen in the person of Gen. Chang Ching-lu at Chuanchow. This officer command. ed a brigade under the late Tuchun, Gen. Li Hou-chi, but he has recently enrolled a largo number of stragglers from the defeated forces of Gen. Li and has brought the strength of his men up to a division. He is now announcing that he is no longer a brigadier, but a Major-General, and is threatening opposition to Generals Hsu Chung-chih and Wang Yun-chuan at Foochow, as well as to Gen. Tseng Chih-ping at Amoy, ile keeping in touch and rei ing loyal to Gen. Li Hou-chi who is at Swatow, GEN. CHANG'S REVENUE, Gen. Chang is developing the local opium industry and states that he will maintain his forces from the revenue derived from opium.
The Foochow militarists and. Gen Tsang Chih-ping at Amoy have now reached an agreement to ce-operate for the defeat of Gen Chang Ching-lu. A thousand troops from Foochow have s on an offensive against Gen. Chang and have reached Hsinghuafu where they are awaiting assistance from Amoy. A foreign despatch from Foochow, consisting of comment on the military situation in Fukien, says that it is still impossible to judge what the intentions of the military leaders at Foochow really are. One force is being sent to the west against the Kiangsi invaders and another to the south against Gen. Chang Ching-lu, but in neither case have sufficient forces been sent to engage upon serious warfare, and neither force has gone vers; far from Foochow. It is, therefore, assumed that Gen Hsv Chung-chih does not really intend to get these forces wholly out of touch with one another, or with Foochow, but has sent them
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