Stones and Spades When Ammunition Fails Nanking, Oct. 21 How the Mahommedans in' Wel-chow, near the Ninghsia provincial border, put up a stubborn resistance to the recent investiture of the elly by Communist bandits under the notorious Hsu Hal-lung, and ultimate. ly repulsed the marauders and checked their inroad into the province, ts revealed in a graphic report received here from the provincial capital, With part of the city already occupied by the invaders and their ammunition exhausted, the Mahommedan inhabitants fought on with Unprecedented courage, using stones, hoes, spades, and whatever implements were handy as fighting wea pons, until they had killed the: major art of the invading forces and put the rest 10 Aight, After repeatedly being repulsed north Shensi by the combined Central and provincial forees, the Eandlt hordes fled north-ward toward Ninghsia province. Recognizing the economic and strategic Importance of Welehow, they decided to take the city for their temporary stronghold, fand a vanguard about' 1,000 strong was despatched to take it by a surprise attack, The wariness of the Inhabitants frustrated the attempt, and a large number of bandits either were slaughtered or wound Failing to take the city, the bandit vanguard retreated to some distance, to awalt reinforcements, after the arrival of which the bandits besieged the city, as well as Yuwong, a neighbouring town, with a view to cutting off their connections,
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