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" CHUNGKING, Oct. 4 (P)—Chi-
Reese nationalist troops Thursday
‘put down: an “accidental” upris-
‘ding by a war Ic+d’s forces in Kun-
@aing, in which three Americans

‘were wounded by stray bulets and
‘others were isolated for hours in

  

fa crossfire . of machinegun and,

‘rifle fire.

Kunming, center of a Se og |

ent area for Americans home-
*bound from the China theater, was
preported getting back to normal,
rbut the Americans still enforced a
precautionary curfew on their own
forces.

r Follows Governor Ousting /

The fighting started after Gyen-
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek Wed-
enesday ousted Yunnan’s povernor,
‘Lung Yun, and it apparently was
due—in part, at least—to a kink
dn the deposed war lord’s com-
‘munications. Anyway latest re-
‘ports from Kunming said Lung

{the Dragon) had been informed.

in advance of Chiang’s decision and
had reluctantly agreed -to hand
cover his post to Gen. Lu Han.

' The reluctant dragon’s notifica-
‘tion to his troops of this decision,
however, somehow failed to reach
two regiments and they resisted
central government forces occupy-
ing the city.

U. S&S. Troops Isolated

- At the height of the fighting,
‘American troops were isolated in
‘two hotels near the city’s west

‘gate, under strict nonintervention j'

yorders, and Kunming’s foreign
‘population—including other Amer-
i ans—huddied behind barred doors

d barricades as machineguns
Chattered in the streets.

Thursday ‘Maj. Gen. H. 8. Au-
rand, who assumed command of
all United States forces in the
area, announced complete cessa-
tion of the fighting. He said there
was no report of any loss of Ameri-
can lives and described the in-
juries of the three wounded Ameri-
‘cans as slight. Their names were
not disclosed.

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& m. curfew Aurand had ordered
for Americans was -not relaxed.
During the fighting even American
M Ps were forbidden to enter the
city or travel its streets.
* Aurand corimands service units
in the. area.

Travelers arriving here from
Kunming said there had been about
40 casualties among central gov-

pernment troops but the casualty
‘figure for Lung Yun’s two -regi-

ments was undetermined.

“What became of the Dragon him-
self still was not clear. Presum-
ably he still was in Kunming.
After some confusion, the face-
saving post which Generalissimo
Chiang offered him when he dis-
missed him was identified here
today as “head of the military
councilors.” However, nobody
seems to know just what this is.
It may be merely a title.