in Shansi Lieut-Gen, Li Fu-yin, commander! of the Gist Division, was executed on charges of abandoning strategic [points and disobedience of orders on the night of October 3 by order of Gen. Yen Hsi-shan, Pacification Commissioner for Shansi and Suiyuan, according to the "Sin Wan Pao.
His sentence was delivered after a lengthy court martial in which Gen. Yen himself questioned the prisoner.
may be recalled that Lieut-Gen: Li withdrew his troops from Weihsien near the Hopei-Shansi border and. from Tatung, in northern Shansi, tu. the face of the advance of Japanese troops, thus losing the two important towns to the Japanese hands a few weeks ago.
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