WAY TO PEKING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 May 1928, Page 11

WAY TO PEKING

VIRTUALLY OPEN.

THE WAR IN CHINA.

SOUTHERNERS’ ADVANCE,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (UNITED SERVICE.) Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. TOKIO, May 1. Reliable Peking advices state that the South China Nationalist forces entered Tsinanfu unopposed on Tuesday morning, indicating that the route to Peking was now virtually opened, and possibly foreshadowing the retreat of Generalissimo Chang Tso Ivin from Peking to Mukden. • It is stated that the majority of the Shantung troops evacuated Tsinan on Monday, and are retreating to the north of the Yellow River, leaving only police units in Tupan, which Cliaug Chung Chang, of Shantung, remained to command, but there are no reports of Chang Chung Chang having been captured. Official advices state that Japanese troops guarding the Japanese quarter of Tsinan shot and killed one of three hundred Shantung rabble which was attempting to loot a Japanese slliop.