WAR IN CHINA.
FENG’S SUCCESSFUL COUNTERATTACK. SHORTAGE IN COAL 1 SUPPLIES. BY CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. PEKING, March 9. Kuominehun or Fengyuhsiang’s army counter-attacked and. made considerable progress south of Tientsin, its opponents withdrawing without making serious resistance. . Cbangtsohin’s gunboats bombarded Taku forts at the mouth of the river on which Tientsin is situated. Foreign ladies at Taku . have been removed to Tientsin. Owing to the blowing up of a bridge from the coal mines the Peking-Mukden railway now holds only one day’s supply of coal, and. sales of coal will be ceasing in Tientsin shortly’.—Router. .
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 6
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