The Archive · 1923

Strife at Chungking

Liu Hsiang Again on Top: Wu Pei-fu's Lieutenant Retreating Ichang, Sept. 28.

It is reported here that there has been further fighting at Chungking. General Chao Yung-hue has fied to Wanhsien by steamer and his troops are retreating overland. Genera] Liu Hsiang is again master of Chungking, and General Yang Sen retreating from Luchow. The Kueichow troops at Fowchow have departed inland, and it is thought they have carried with them the Japanese andi Chinese captives from the str. Yiyang Maru. The Japanese Consul with the Hankow manager of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has proceeded up-river to negotiate, but no news has so_far been received from them.—Reuter.

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