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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 Back; 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 fulling back in the face of greater numbers, while on the third he is barely holding his ground. Up the West river reinforced Kwangsi forces are driving the constitutionalists con-stitutionalists before them. The city of Dealing 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 Peking levies. Communications Com-munications in this region are badly disorganized. At Waichow, on the East river, fifty miles east of Canton, the battle which has been raging intermittently for more than a week UK is in progress. Several days ago Sun Yat Sen's headquarters here announced an-nounced that Waichow had been captured, cap-tured, but the story of victory was premature. Chen Chiung-Mjng, the man who drove Sun from Canton last June, still is holding out in his home town. Waichow, with Sun's troops be-seiging be-seiging the place. |