In probably the first interview he ever granted to the press, General Yeh Ting, commander of the "New Fourth Army," which is operating in the vicinity of Nanking and Wuhu. told Reuter that the vanguards of his troops were only 15 miles from Nanking.
Men of his army, dressed in plain-clothes, he said, had frequently put up posters on the city walls of Nanking, and on several occasions some even had succeeded in entering the city.
The interview took place in a small hotel in a room lighted by a kerosene lamp.
General Yeh Ting, who together with General Ho Lung staged an uprising in Nanchang in 1926 and started a ten-year war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang, is almost boyish in appearance although 42 years of age. During the interview he spoke rapidly in Cantonese and Mandarin.—Reuter.
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