Last Thursday and Friday, four} mixed brigades commenced' the advance by the Kin-Han railway-Tine from Wusengkwan over the Honan border. These were, the, Hupeh' ist Mixed Brigade under General, Song Shien-yeh, and the Srd unger Sung Ta-pei, and the National 17th Mixed Brigade under Ch'en Teh-yin with the 2ist under Vu Yinelinn. These were followed a day or two later by the brigades which form the -division of K'eo Yin-chieh at Wushengkwan, under Generals Ho Kuoh-kuang. and Chia Wan-hsin. The whole of the six brigades are grouped under the command of General K'eo Yin-chieh, who has been stationed at Woshengkuan on the provincial border for the past 12 months or more.
For this movement, three different reasons have been alleged. The first is that General K'eo, having, last week sent forward a few of hhis troops into Hogan towards Hsingyangehow, was attacked—by the Honanese General Chiang Shih-chieh, who has been stationed Hsingyangchow in erder to pre-
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