General Han Fu-chu, Gowernor of Shantung and Commander of the Third Route Army, who was arrested On orders from the supreme military authority, will face a military court in Hankow during the next few days, according to the latest report from Hankow. The rumour that he had been executed could not be confirmed.
The Shantung warlord, who was deprived of his posts by Gen. Chiang Kal-shek for his alleged failure to resist the Japanese, was reported by the Transocean Kuo Min News Agency to have only arrived in Hankow yesterday. He was escorted by a strong guard. cold on the night of January 12, when the world-famous Grand Canal. mentioned in Marco Polos travels, was frozen solid. Thus, the troops were enabled to eross the Canal with their equipment and artillery. Delivering a surprise offensive, the Chinese troops on the West shore of the Grand Canal crossed the river and rushed the city gates, which quickly fell into Chinese hands," the account stated.
Chinese reports claim that the Chinese troops by the morning of 13, had advanced 10 miles Chinese circles attach much importance to the victory at Tsining. as the recapture of the city removes the Japanese threat to Kweiteh, on the Lunghai Railway, west of Hsuchow tu.
It was also rumoured in Chinese circles here that two generals of the former North-Eastern Army had been executed on order from the Generalissimo. They were Gen. Liu Tuochuen and Gen, Wan Fu-lin, Both Gen. Liu and Gen. Wan, according to a Chinese report, were charged with mutiny and indiscipline of their commands. Troops under the former commander were said to have mutinied at Soochow while those commanded by Gen. Wan left their posts at Pagtingtu. The troops not apy caused the collapse of Chinese defences at Soochow and Paotingfu, but also looted during their retreat, it was reported,
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