Sudden Halt near Chengtu after Victorious Advance: Looking for Southern Leader?
From Our Own Correspondent, Changtu, Feb. 1.
'To-day the four city gates were closed "until 10 a.m. Tt Hivision was within, 60 1 of the ported that 'Ten Chi-heo'
city. Ho is Yang's advance guard. Orders had come through from Gen, Hsiong Keh-wa, w so narrowly escaped capture Tungchuang, to sacrifice th capital if neod' be, but to hold the Arsenal at_all costs,
Mixed Brigade was put in charge Chang Tsung with the, and
trenches in all directions, _an the arsenal, Ho has dug strongly fortified: the whole aren.
Military orities point out that the danger to Yang: Sen is the feogth and vulner line of communi astride the mai 5 theory of attackers in ' Szechuan in-the past has been—get into Chengtu and capture the arsenal and you need no other communi-mentions, Gen. Yang Sen, however, seems in no particular hurry to get in-|f to Chengtu.. He has swept to 80 [i with incredible force and speed and now seems to be casting about for Hsiong. If fie can catch Hsiong that is his est. uarantes for comparative safety in. the Capital, but that wily genius is not caught and does not intend to be. "His men and colleagues are" extremely loyal to him. He has the brains for leadership: and the money to keep going. Hsiong is about the only "one of all the military leaders that does not. change. He is consistently Southern and will have no dealings with the North.
On the other hand Gen. Yang Sen got within 20 (i of the' capital last year, on the Longchuanbe} nie Hills -and was then turned He has left the hills from north without alone this time and come, jous opposition. Even yet one cannot predict what. will heppen. Sen to break into the capital seems an easy thing for after his triumphant advance, but there is Chang Tsung who' has been called the "Napoleon" of Szechuan; he is only a young man, out' physically strong, good leader, loyal to Heiong, and knows no fear. His men are hard, dangerous lot who have
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