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Show RIVAL CHINESE HALTADVANCE THREE BATTLE-FRONT ENGAGEMENTS ENGAGE-MENTS ARE BEING FOUGHT IN CANTON AREA South China Leader Repulsed in Two Conflicts; Men Are Falling Baokj Chen Chiung-Ming Still Holding Out Canton. On three fronts, west, north and east of Canton, battles are raging between Sun Yat Sen's constitutionalist consti-tutionalist forces and northern Chinese Chi-nese troops. On two of the battle lines Sun's armies are reported to be falling back in the face o greater numbers, while on the third he in barely holding his ground. Up the West river reinforced Kwangsi forces are driving the constitutionalists con-stitutionalists before them. The city of Doaling is in flames. Traffic on the river is at a standstill. From the North river come reports of reverses for Sun and further victories vic-tories for the l'eking levies. Communications Com-munications in this region are badly disorganized. At Waiehow, on the East river, fifty miles east of Canton, the battle which has been raging intermittently for more than a week still is in progress. Several days ago Sun Yat Sen's headquarters here announced an-nounced that Waiehow had been captured, cap-tured, but the story of victory was premature. Chen Chiung-Ming, the man who drove Sun from Canton last June, still is holding out in his home town. Waiehow, with Sun's troops be-seiging be-seiging the place. |