FIGHTING IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 17959, 4 May 1922, Page 5

FIGHTING IN CHINA

A CHOW-CHOW REPORT. WU-PEI-FU GETS A REVERSE. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. VANCOUVER, May 2. The United Press Association’s correspondent at Shanghai states that reports from Chow-chow, the headquarters of General Wu Pei-Fu, admit that General Feng Tcin’s accurate artillery ftre frustrated an encircling movement eouth-west of Poking, and stopped the of fresh attacks. Cluiiig-Sin-lein is _ facing the heaviest artillery, the casualties exceeding 1,000 vesterday. General Wu Pui-Fus chief of staff accuses General Feng Tein of employing Japanese gunpointer?, ■which explains his superior accnracy.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ARTILLERY ENGAGEMENT, TWO THOUSAND CASUALTIES. PEKING. May 3. 'lho heavy cannonading is now extending from Machung to Peking. Both Bic.es are massing largo forces on the liun-ho River, thirty, miles from Peking. General Wu Pei-Fu is attempting to cross to take possession of the Peking-Tientsin railway. lit, is believed that Peking is safe from attack. The city gales are shut at night, and Chinese troops patrol the Gly. The casualties, in the Chang-Sin-Tien battle ate now estimated at 2,000. The French railway workers narrowly escaped when an aeroplane bombs on the railwav shops at Chang-bin-lion. A. and N.Z, Cable: ■ *fSSHSr^!SS!BiS!SS9