Unrest prevails in and out of Hankow now-a-days as anti-Nain-king agents are attempting to foster an anti-Government phere by posting anti-C} aking handbills. in various places of the city.
A few days ago a plot to bring sbout a ict in the Wochane prison was discovered, while a plan fo create a disturbance in the Wahan Fortification Headquarters has also been unearthed, penetrate the Government line on the 20th but were driven back by the 6th Route Army which pursued the insurgents and captured the lenemy's first line trenches, General Chu's units are since reported to have effected junction with the Right Wing Government forees on the Peking Hankow front Yesterday morning one Shan: cavalry corps from southwestern Shantung, suddenly appeared in the] region north of the Lung-Hai Railway with a view to breaking through, the Right Wing Government Line, but they were checked by the 2nd Division under General Ku Teo-tung.
In these circumstances, the loca! 7 The battle which followed resulted Garrison Headquarters are now i in the precipitous rettest of the exercising the strictest precautions {i insurgents, in order to prevent serious incidents.
Official dispatches from the front—Renge. state that fighting between the Ist Capture of Pochow Army Corps under General Han Fu-ichu, and the Shansi rebel units along Nanking, July 23, ithe Kiaochow-Tsinan Railway has The ional Government received been suspended during the last two 4 telegram from General Chiang days on account of the heavy rain-Kai-shek to-day announcing that fall. the 7th Division of the Government In the Tientsin-Pukow Railway troops captured Pochow, Anhui, sector, the Shansi troops launched yesterday moming at 9 o'clock, a heavy counter-attack on the The fighting on both fronts Government forees both on the 20th been of the most severe nature as and 21st, but were ul ately rethe rebels rushed their entire fore pulsed by the 15th Division under into the firing line for what is des-General: Ma Hung-nei, north of: cribed by' General Chiang as their, Tawenkow.—Kuo Min, "last offensive." Reuter, Peking—Hankow Front Action Fierce Fighting on Lung-Ht Hankow, July 23, Hsuchow, July 23.
Military activities along the" Pe-Despite the terrible heat, the last, King-Hankow Railway, front have three days have seen some of the revived. According to a telegram fiercest fighting along the Lung-Hai from General Ho. Chen-chun, Gom-Railway front with the Government mander of the Srd Army Corps, upon forces holding the advantage over receipt of secret information that the Northern rebels, according to a detachment of the Kuominchuh message from Liuho, north-eastern rebels under Liu Yohfen had been Honan. Oyer 5,000 rebels are esti-discovered in the Changku-Hoshangto have been killed and chico. region, north of Hsuchang, wounded during the three-day en [fore ge gen gene central Route forees under Generals Het Yuan-courter.
The Government Left Wiag Fyrces under General Chu Shao-long. stationed south of Kaifeng, here the jebazn and Heizo Oki-chu, in conjanction with the Left Wing units under.
General. Yang Fuscbeng, laundlied an attack on the insurgents ing-chi-chow-kan FUR) BRR)
Tapis 12 PER AN: om, Mrx, $0.40 Pen Cory on the night of the 20th. 'The rebels; taken by surprise, offered little resistance and fled' in con-
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