OPENING APRIL 1
Nanking, Mar, 9.
1t is reported that the new Nanking-Wuhu Railway will be formally opened on April 1. A motor road recently was opened between Wuhu and Nanking—Reuter.
Canton, Mar. 4.
Following the return of the Communists to Kweichow from Yunnan and Szechuan, where they have met with no success, Reree ghting has been going on during the past few days and it is estimated that 70,000 Reds at present are attacking posi tions held by Government troops.
Several important cities, including Tucheng, Chishual, and Tungtse, fell the Reds pushed their way southward, and military despatches re-ived to-day indicate that Tsungyi, an important strategic town in North Kweichow, also has been captured by the Reds, following heavy fighting in hich the provincial forces suffered many casual The troops under Gen. Wang Chis-ich, Governor of Kweichow, are re-Ported to have retreated to Hisinchan, and the Government forces under Gen. Hsueh Yoh, who recently was appointed Pacification Commission of
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