ANFUITES DEFEATED.
RETIRE TO PEKING. AMERICAN AND OTHER TROOPS TO PROTECT BAILM AY. AA'ashington, July 19. The State Department learns that the Anfu forces sustained a severe defeat and have retired to Peking. General Wang, commanding the troops in Peking, is taking measures to. protect the city against violence from the Anfu troops. The Peking city gates are closed, but the people are now calmer. Telegraphic communication with Tientsin has been resumed. American troops number, ng more than a thousand are preparing to act in conjunction with the -forces of other nations in China to protect the PekingTientsin railroad. This can be done under the Boxer agreement. It is rumoured that Japanese influence is supporting the Anfus.—(A. and N.Z.) __ TUAN’S BAD GENERALSHIP. (Received 22, 8.45 a.m.) Peking, July 21. Seventeen train loads ot Changstolins and Mukden troops passed through Tientsin for Peking. Despite his success at Aangs'un. events are going against TuiUi-chi-jui on all fronts. His forces aro retiring on the capital. Bad generalship caused severe reverses to his forces along the Peking-Hangkow railway.-—(A., and N.Z.) \
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 186, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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