Concerted Action to Oust Appointed Chairman of Military the Japanese Canton, Mar. 1.
Plans to suppress the Communists in Kiangsi anti Fukien now been completed by the military authorities here, so. that the government troops in those provinces may be sent to the Shanghai front, The military commanders at first preferred to send troops directly from here to reinforce the 19th Route Army, as their officers and men have been stirred by the stub-Born defence put up by General Teal Ting-kai's army, who were re~ leruited from the same villages a5 the local soldiers.
Owing to the impracticability of sending troops from Canton to Shanghai, General Ho Ying-ching, Minister of War, suggested to the local commanders that it would be better: to mobilise Cantonese troops. to fight the Communists in Kiangsi and Fukien, which are nearer to Kwantung, ' while the provincial troops in those provinces could be sent, to Shanghai and other points This scheme is stated to have been approved by General Chen Chictang and the anti-Communist Jexpedition will accordingly set out in the near future, The Communists in South Kiangsi and Fukien are taking advantage of &e trouble in Shanghai: and Manchuria to increase their acti Ing lovely followed herer The Iota The situation at Shanghai is be-
issued leaflets reporting ial Chinese victories, AS apers were at first deliberate: ly misled, by speculators, such ports are'now not printed' until confirmation is obtained from foreign. news dispatche Besides press' reports, both Gen-feral Tsai Ting-kai and. Chiang Kwang-nai send regular Ports on war for the information of the local public, and these are duly featured in "the vernacular Military and civil leaders here fare of the opinion that the Nanking leaders should mobilise all the Jand, air and sea forces at their disposal in order to. drive the [Japanese out of Shanghai and that, simultaneously, all the north-eastern forces should' make a concerted Arive to oust the Japanese troops.
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