Lanchow, May 26.
On a tour of Kansu and Ninghsia fin connection with the planning of anti-Communist activities in the two [provinees, Gen, Chang. Hsueh-liang, facting Commander-In-Chief of the [Red-Suppression forces in the northwest, arrived here yesterday afternoon from Sian by plane, The Young Marshal was _accompanied by Gen. Yang Hu-cheng, Pacification Commissioner for Shensi, [Generals Chen Cheng and Chu Shou-Hkwang, Central Army commanders, land was met at the airfield by Gen. Vu Hsueh-chung, Governor of Kanst land Gen, Chu Shao-liang, Pacification Commissioner, Either this afternoon or to-morrow, it is learned, Gen, Chang will pro-leeed to Ninghsia to see Gen. Ma [Hung-kwel, Governor of Ninghsl His trip to these two provinces, Gen. Chang said In an interview, 15 arrange counter-measures to check a possible penetration by Red remnants now In northern Shensi.
As the northern Shens! territory is, poor, according to Gen, Chang, the Communists can not long sustain themselves there, and consequently would have to' seek refuge olsen That the Reds would not be able to penetrate into southern Shensi is a certainty, Gen, Chang declared, and the only course open to them would Kansu and Ninghsla,—Central News, "Reds" Active In Hslkang Yunnanfu, May 29, That tie "Reds" under Hsiao Ko and Ho Lung are converging on the district of Balang, about 300 miles west of Tachienlu, in southern Hsikang, is confirmed' in official telegrams received from Lieut.-General Liv Chien-hsu, Field-Commander of the Central Government Pursuit Forces, who is directing the campaign at Tall, north-western Yunnan, and General Ku Chu-tung, Director of the Provisional Headquarters of the President of the Military Affairs Commission.
The former reports that 2,000 "Reds" under the personal command of Hsiao Ko al lacked Kutingssu Monastery in Balang district. Their main forces, however, are moving towards Ting-siang, 70 miles south-east of Batang.
According to General Ku Chu-tung, the vanguards of the "Reds" are fleeing northwards from the Hil Yunnan border in two separate columns of 2,000 each. Heading northwards along the Kinsha Kiang, a tributary of the Yangtze River, one column has reached Changpo, 133, mailes south-west of Batang. The other column has also arrived at_a point about 100 miles south-east of Balang.—Kuo Min,
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