Show j CHINA TROOPS GIRO FOR DRIVE H ON REBEl FOES Manchurian Forces Concentrate Concen Concen- irate Around City as asS S Enemy Advances G j ts Br Pre hw t I SHANGHAI July 24 24 Manchurian forces supporting the nationalist government gov gov- were con concentrating today around miles mlles south of or and preparing to stop th the northward and Md eastward drives o of rebel armies whose size were reported Increasing Information from authoritative 41 1 sources Indicated the rebel forces now Include several divisions of ot Shans Shansi 5 province plO troops In addition to the I insurgent arm army of at General Shih Yu Yu- San wh whose sympathies are said to tolie tolie S T lie against the Manchurians he and the nationalist government General Genera Shih recently Is said to have espoused the cause of ot the new independent government In Canton Although confidence was expressed in and that the uprising uprising uprising up up- rising would be quelled promptly the same sources reported General Shihsi Shih's s i cavalry already had occupied Ting Ting- I chow only 20 miles from I The Manchurians described by sev SC several eral sources as having lost some seine o of I. I their taste for tor l battle attle were reported preparing defense lines at half halt way between n and I Shansi forces were said to be movI moving I ing tog through mountain passes on the eastern border of ot their province In Intending Intending intending In- In tending to threaten which soon roon may be abandoned by the ManI Man Man- I The attitude of ot Han Fu-Chu Fu governor gover goyer- gover- gover governor i nor of ot Shantung uncertain to observers His choice of sides like Uke- ly Iy will prove to be the decisive factor In the northern situation |