Canton. June 23.
The report that Kwangsi troops. again are advancing was emphatically denied to-day by Gen, Li Tsung-jen, the commander-in-chief of "the Kwangsi forces, Hunan provincial troops, he said, had taken over the garrison at Yungchow, 15 miles inside the Hunan border, which recently was loceupied by Kwangsi troops.
Following a sudden decision reach-led by the Southwest Political Council this morning, Gen. Chen Chi-tang, the Kwangtung military chief, assumed office as Commader-in-Chief of the First Group Army of the Antl-Japanese National Salvation Forces. 'A tense atmosphere prevailed during the oath-taking ceremony. The formal assumption by Gen. Chen of the post is regarded here as being very" significant and, henceforth, events are expected to move with (greater rapidity, The report that an Independent military affairs sion has been established here is
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