Hsuchow, Aug. 17.
Reports from the front state that tthe rebel units under Sun Tien-ying and Sun Lien-chung sustained another defeat at the hands of the Left Wing Government forees in the Maikang-Shihcheng region in east-fern Honan, The retreating rebels are reported to be making hurriedly for Kaifeng where the Kuominchun units are concentrating for @ final stand.
On the Peking-Hankow railway front, the Government forces, which have been inactive while the operations on the Shantung front were progress, have received orders to commence their advance on Chang chow. General Ho Chen-chun, commander of the 3rd army, accompanied by General Hsu Yuan-chuan, commander of the 16th route army, made an inspection by aeroplane of the Sincheng-Chengchow rca yesterday to observe the condition of the enemy in this region—Kuo Min, Peking, Aug. 17.
According to reports received here from foreign sources the bulk of the Shansi troops in Shantung have succeeded. in withdrawing north-Ward across the Yellow River—
Peking, Aug. 18. sshauai forees at Tsinan has affected Yecent reverse suffered by the]
the morale of the Northern military forces who now appear to have lost their fighting spiv the meantime, the Government forces are reported to be more determined than ever to carry out a hot pursuit of the retreating Shansi forces, Plain clothes agents of the 'Nanking forces shave already penetrated the 'Northerners' battle line and are plotting to create distur-
Jdisorganize the territory under Northern jurisdiction. Signs juntest are already visible even at Peking and Tientsin, According to a report reaching Mere, No. 25 railway bridge on the [Peking-Tientsin Railway, which is situated near the Tientsin Station 3 destroyed this morning at 11:30 joclock by a band of persons who Jare believed to be the plain-clothes szente of the Nanking troops, Trafic on the railway was temporarily
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