WAR IN CHINA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

FIGHTING BETWEEN WUPEIFU'S AND FRONTIER TROOPS PEACE PROSPECTS HOPEFUL i ■ By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Kec. July 18, 5.5 p.m.) Peking, July 16. The advance of. the troops of the Fifteenth- Division, supported "by guns, drove back Wupeifu's outposts, twentyono being 'wounded. 7 Frontier troops reached Peking on Friday, and is fighting the outpost, also near Lofa. The frontier troops are .using old French aeroplanes, scouting with Chinese pilots. A later message eta-ted that the Wupeifu troops surrounded and captured a whole brigade of frontier troops. Two regiments of the Fifteenth Division went over to Wupeifu. Fighting is proceeding at two points.—Beuter. ■

Shanghai, July 16. The rival forces in- this neighbourhood htive withdrawn, and tranquil,lity has been restored'. Tho run on the native banks has ceased. The military situation at Peking is unchanged, but the prospects for peace are hopeful.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, July 16. The "Now York . Times" Poking correspondent reports Tnat : tho Anfu general Tuan Chi-jni, who was a former Premier of China, has asked (ho Presiissue a mandate forbidding any fighting between the anti-militarists end the Anfu forces.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.