The Archive · 1930

Nanking's Dispositions

Nanking, Sept. 1.

It is learned from authentic sour es that the Government forces will start on Seplember 5 siavultsneous eneral offensive movements on both the -Lang-Hai and Peking-Hankow Railway fronts.

Reports from the Tientsin-Pukow! Railway state that a heavy troop concentration is going "n all along the Lung Hai front.

Besides other crack divisions the. Governnent Army, the following are sheing rushed to the Lung Hai front: the '60th and 61st. Cantonese divisions, under Generals Tsai Ting-kai sand Chiang Kuang. lai, respectively: the ist Model Division, -under General Feng Yi pels and the 2nd Division, under General Ku Chu-tung.

General Lia "Shih,. Commander of} the Ist Division, who was: Commander-in-Chief of Government forces on.the Tientsin-Pukow Railway] when the National troops were ad: vaneing towards Tsinaniu,.ezrived a few days ago by Zplane at Lobo, the headquarters of the Government!

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