A part of the left wing Govern ment forees in Shantung under General Hsu Ko-hsiang crossed over the northern bank of the Yellow River from Lokow yesterday and is advancing directly on Yencheng, the first station on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway on the northern bank of the River, A Jarge Government force has now. reached -the southern bank in the vicinity sot Lokow preparatory to "the: launching of the general drive government Back at Tsinan Nanking, Aug. '19.
According to an official annoynee~ ment made public by the Nationat Government to-day tke Shuntuns Provincial Government which had removed to Tsiangtao, was reinstat~ ed in Tsinan this afternoon, starting all administrative business at the Green Howards to Leave Hankow After a stay of ten days at Hankow, the 160 officers and men of the 2nd Green Howards who went. from Shanghai to act as reinforeements for the Royal Navy are to return here in a few days, probably arriving on August 2%
Yochow Foreigners to Protected Washington, Aug. 19.
Orders have been, sent to' Ameri~ can naval forces in"Chind to afford protection to foreigners at Yochow, it was announced today.—Unitéd Press, Nanking's Trumpet Cart king, Aug. 20, A trumpet call to. the National Expeditionary Forces to follow up their recent victories over the Shansi rebels and to press northward for the complete extermination. of the Northern militarists 80 as to restore peace and national unity and deliver the people from the tyranny of Militacism is sounded in tol grams despatched yesterday to eon mander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek and. the entire rank and file of the National Army by the State Counett and the Central Executive committee of the Kuomintang. The messages warmly commend them for ther meritorious services. in the capture of Tsinan, thereby dealing a mortal dlow to' the Shansi forces and crushing the morale of the Kuomin-shun rebels.
Declaring that the victories cently won by. the Government Forces on the Tsin-Pu and Kiao-Tsi fronts are mainly to be ascribed to the able generalship of Commander in-Chief Chiang and the valour and loyalty of the officers and' soldiers, the telegram of the Central Exect= tive Committee goes on to say: "The present victory is a triumph of the Revolutionary "forces. fighting for the realization of the Three Fevple's Principles over the, un-Phincipled reactionary and counter= revolutionary elements; it is a triumph of the unanimous will, of the nation to restore peace and national unity over the sinister schemes of the- reactionaries bent upon aggression and destruction. It is to your (General Chiang) able leadership and the spirit of sacrifice of the entire body of affeers and soldiers that the Panty and Government and the entire nation owe their continued preservation." In.
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