Meanwhile there is som> fighting] going on several fronts, Ths three big units of the Kuominchun are facing their enemies on a number of fronts. Their total—strength may be roughly estimated at something like 250,000 men. of whom less than half are properly equipped and trained. The first Kuominchun, which is very short of ammuni and money, is made up of 12 divi sions, 10 mixed brigades and 10] cavalry brigades. If these were full units, this force alone would number over 200,000 men, but the Kuominchun's most sanguine sup. porters do not credit them witS more than 100,000. Of these about 25,000 are northeast of Peking, between Jehol and Chaoyang trying to check the Fengtien advance along that route to Peking. Twenty thousand face Chang Tso-lin's outposts en the Lan river between Tientsin Jand Shanhaikuan, while, until a da or $0 ago, 10,000 were in the garrisons about Peking. The rest are along the Mongol border and in Kansu, from Dolan Nor in the east to Lanchowfu in the west.
What Hon: Claims Yueh Wei-chun claims that in his 2nd Kuominehun—the most unruly rabble of half-armed bandits in the north—he hag 46 brigades, or 200- 000 men. It is known that he does not have over 120,000 rifles, so his maximum strength may be put at that figure and, by writing off 50 per cent, for lack of training, discipline and. general efficiency, the umber should rightly be cut in half in any estimate of strength, after which the touchy question of loyalty would influence the count. This force is stretched along the Lung-Hai railway from the Shantung border on the east to Loyang fon the west, and occupies the Kin-
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