VICTORIOUS NATIONALISTS
SHANTUNG CAPITAL ENTERED PEKING ENDANGERED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. TOKIO, May 1. (Received May 2, at 11 a.m.) Reliable Peking advices state that the South China Nationalist forces entered Tsinan unopposed on Tuesday morning, indicating that the route to Peking is now virtually opened, and possibly foreshadowing the retreat of the generalissimo (Chang Tso-lin) from Peking to Mukden. It rs stated that a majority of tho Shantung troops evacuated Tsinan on Monday, and are retreating to the north of the Yellow River, leaving only police units at Tupan, which Chang Chung-chang, Governor of Shantung, remain- 1 to command; but there are no reports of Chang Chung-chang having been captured. Official advices state that the Japanese troops guarding the Japanese quarters of Tsinan shot and killed one of 300 of a Shantung rabble which was attempting to loot a Japanese shop.— United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 19855, 2 May 1928, Page 6
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