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Show Nationalists Harassed by Bandit And Communist Troops in China SHANGHAI, May Si (AF) Tl nationalist govern ment, hard pressed by tha rebellious northern alliance; troops in Honan prorlnes, la beinc baraased elsewhere by ban dJt and communistic armies nrs; Ins; several provinces. An ooiinoua silence was Imposed today up communlcatlona from the battlefront In Honan, . where the rebels hava been fighting; the fov ernment forces sine May S In an attempt to overthrow the Nanking government and Ha president, Chiang- Kai-shek. Tha tide of bat tlo apparently turned Wednesday when the northerners claimed they captured sO.Oos nationalists and forced the yovernment troops to re-traat. re-traat. Rumors that Chiang- Kai-shek Kai-shek had been wounded In the arm by a shell fragment while leading the nationalists were, oft ic tally denied de-nied today by Nanking-. Taking- advantage of tha grovern-ment's grovern-ment's preoccupation with rebel forces In Honan, communists pressed their attack upon -the city of Chang- Chow, thirty miles west of Amoy, In Fuklen province. Terrorised, Ter-rorised, thousands of tha populace flad toward Amoy. on the coast. A number of fore I en mtsatonsrle were prepared to follow momentarily. momentar-ily. Nationalist officials of ths city deserted their posts and a portion of the government troops of the garrison Joined tha rod attackers.-Tha attackers.-Tha Standard OH company's Cbl-neaa Cbl-neaa ag-ent for tha Chang- Chow Is reported to hava been kidnaped, the reds demanding- 1 16,00 Mexican1 (7no) ransom. |