Chengtu, Sept. 20.
The report that a body of about 2,000 bandits had fled to Touma and, Pahteng on September 14 and were held at bay there by the Government troops has been confirmed. Gen, Wang Chun, commander of the 3rd, Army, reports that about 900 bandits allied out of Chelanli on the mozning of September 12-and made a fierce attack on the troops at Chiuchibshih, The attack was repulsed, the centre and flanks of the attache being beaten back and many casual ties inflicted. The Reds withdrew the following morning to Walsang. The garrison at Chiuchihshih now! has been reinforced by two. fresh 'The capture of Hungjao, west of 'Taehiuti, which shad been' occupied by the Reds, Is reported by Gen. Yang Sen, commander of the 20th Army in Szechuen. The defeated bandits have retreated north-east ward to Shukushan, The Intest reports received from Gen, Chu Shao-liang state that about Go 8,00 Reds, after leaving Talakou, Ware attacked and dispersed by: Mino troops. A report has been received from Gen. Hu Chung-nan that, on September 17, three reg\- ments of Reds passed through Halungkiang, west of Sungpan, and (proceeded to Maoerhkan, further. the west, Some of the recently captured bandits declare that the Red. troops under the command of Chu Teh and Mao Tse-tung have fled northward, while those commanded "by Hatt Tung-hai, who form the 30th Route Red Army, have fled southward, with Panyu, a town west of Upper Paotso, og their objective. They have announced their intention of returning to Maoerhkan and of attacking Sungpan. Among the bandits who northward on September 16 are those who. were stationed numbering 1¢ 2,000, and 8,000 who had been quartered at Tzuma and Pahteng.
jerts from scouting aeroplanes that a large body of Reds, estimated to number about 7,000, had made their way to the vicinity of Holungkang and Jewukou, Government bombing planes got to work and killed numbers of them. A large force of Reds have remained Inactive since their defeat at Kou-Jihteh, It is feared they may succeed in escaping into Shensi—Reuter.
Chengtu, Sept. 19.
The district of Kwangyuan, northeast Szechuen, is flooded by mountain freshets, according Urgent message received here. Most fof the farms and blockhouses have been damaged, and work on the Sze. chuen-Shensi highway temporarily is suspended.
The Kialing Ho at Shunking (Nan-chenghsien), also in northeast Szochuen, has risen and overflowed ils embankments.—Kuo Min.
Kuncha toward the southern part of Chinghai. Operations against the Reds at Tanglang and Kuwa are still Miao Troops Rout Reds Chengtu, Sept. 18.
According to a message received here from Gen. Chu Shao-liang, 2 force of over 10,000 bandits, who formerly had their stronghold at Ankang, have retreated to Pulu, following a severe defeat inflicted upon them by Miao soldiers ut Mawa. The bandits were fleeing in the direction of Latsang when they encountered the Miao soldiers and were routed. Another group of bandits, it is stated, fare preparing to flee from the Hakao river to the Hsia river, Attacks recently were made by! about #000 bandits in the vicinity of Tzuma. When their vanguard, over 300 in number, reached Shawn and Pahteng, they were attacked by Government scouts, and, in heavy ighting which lasted for two hours, ten of the bandits were killed and many others captured. It was Tearned from the prisoners that their detachment intended to proceed to the cities of Siku, in Kansy, and Nanping, im Szechuen, both lose t0 the border of the two provinces.
Heavy snow fell on the night of September 11, north of Chingla, northest of Sungpan, and of Achu, west of Chienputang. Lately, the water has risen in the Kochu iver, in the northwest corner of Szechuen. The Reds, it is reported, gumed down many houses at Achu on September 12.
Desperate assaults were launened by the Reds against Chiuchihshih vetween September 11 and 13, but the ment troops beat "off all attacks and are still in possession. A considerable force of Reds are en~ camped in the neighbourhood of Ningkuhwayuen, near Siku, in Kan. 434, according to a report from the Government scouting aeroplanes.—Reuter,
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