WAR IN CHINA
TIDE ON TURN AGAIN | NOBTHEM SUCCESSES MOVING SOUTHWARDS United Press Association—By Eloctrlc Tdt« eraph—Copyrlcht. United Service. . , i (Eeceived 26th May, noon.) ' ■ SHANGHAI, 25th May. Fighting along the Pekin-Hankow railway has assumed serious propor> tions during a four days' engagement. > The Northerners encountered the first fcuominehun army, winning ground in . every encounter. They arc now near- - ing Chengting. Tho capture of Sui- •■ yan is reported-due to tho Northerners' withdrawal from Heilung-kiang. Cavalry are now passing through Tientsin for the purpose of dealing with raiders on a centre line between, tho two railways, whilo reorganised Shantung armies are moving southwards from Tsangehow through empty territories lately abandoned by tho Southerners. The general impression ■of the situation seems to, be that tho Northern forces arc concentrating- one swift campaign against Feng Yusiang in the hope of. his complete cli- > urination. ' \ - Eight hundred Japanese troops, tho \'anguard of the Nagoya Division, has arrived at Tientsin. Three thousand more are expected to-morrow.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9
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160WAR IN CHINA Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9
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